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Brecht in all his greatness
The publication of the collected poems of Bertolt Brecht in English is cause for celebration, says ANDY CROFT
Wise, sad, defeated, defiant: Bertolt Brecht
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NOT many poets’ reputations can survive the publication of their entire life’s work in a single breezeblock volume.
Even the best can seem repetitious and their finest work diminished alongside weak, juvenile or unfinished poems. Among 20th-century poets, there are only a few who may be said to pass this test and all were communists – Louis Aragon, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet, Yiannis Ritsos and Bertolt Brecht.
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