Else Lasker-Schuler: The Broken World

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Else Lasker-Schuler: The Broken World
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hans W. Cohn
SeriesAnglica Germanica Series 2
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780521168366
ClassificationsDewey:831.912
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 11 August 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) was a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. This 1974 book was the first full-length treatment of her poetry in English. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist at the time of this book's original publication, in this study of the poet's life, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche. The book takes as a point of departure Peter Hille's remark that Lasker-Schuler was a 'Sappho whose world had broken apart'. Her world of experience was a constant swing between extremes: an intense longing for communication which, thwarted, led back to isolation and despair. The wish for contact and withdrawal from reality often coexist in irreconcilable conflict, only resolved by the poet's own acceptance of things as they are. She came closest to such acceptance in her search for God, which led to her religious poetry.