Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket (protected with archival mylar cover) in very good+ condition. Personal notes on blank first page. Creasing at top corner of several pages. Otherwise, text of book is clean and unmarked. See photos for details noted. Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyse Brecht’s work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later Germany poets.