Previously Unpublished Poems of Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Previously Unpublished Poems of Ernst Toller (1893-1939): A Critical Translation. Ed. and trans. by JAMES JORDAN. (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, 5) Lampeter: Mellen. 2000. 200 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7734-7681-4 (hbk).

This volume of forty poems, not otherwise of easy access, establishes Ernst Toller as a poet beyond his three major published collections Gedichte der Gefangenen (1921), Das Schwalbenbuch (1924) and Vormorgen (1924) to be found in the Gesammelte Werke, vol. II (Munich and Vienna: Hanser, 1978). As Richard Dove points out in his ...

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