Brecht's poetry of political exile / edited by Ronald Speirs.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and indexes.

Svendborg 1938 : a historical sketch / David Midgley -- The usefulness of poetry / David Constantine -- 'Visit to a banished poet' : Brecht's Svendborg poems and the voices of exile / Tom Kuhn -- Exile in 'Danish Siberia' : the Soviet Union in the Svendborg poems / Katharine Hodgson -- Strength and clarity : Brecht, Auden and the 'true democratic style' / Tony Davies -- Satire as propaganda : Brecht's 'Deutsche satiren' for the Deutscher Freiheitssender / Michael Minden -- The fourth door : difficulties with the truth in the Svendborg poems / Joyce Crick -- The uses of rhetoric in Brecht's Svendborg poems / Anna Carrdus -- Assuaging the anxiety of impotence : poetic authority and power in the Svendborg poems / Elizabeth Boa -- Figures of memory in the 'Chroniken' / Anthony Phelan -- The poet in time / Ronald Speirs -- Those born later read Brecht : the reception of 'An die Nachgeborenen' / Karen Leeder.