Svendborger Gedichte
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| - | '''''Poor White''''' is an American [[novel]] by [[Sherwood Anderson]], published in 1920. An episode in the novel inspired [[Bertold Brecht]]'s poem "[[Kohlen für Mike]]" ("Coal for Mike"), published in his 1939 collected ''[[Svendborger Gedichte]]''. | + | '''''Svendborger Gedichte''''' ('Svendborg Poems') is a poetry collection by the German poet and playwright [[Bertolt Brecht]], and the last collection of new poems to be published while he lived. The collection is named after the town of [[Svendborg]] on the Danish island of [[Funen]], where Brecht lived during his exile from Nazi Germany. During this period, [[Hanns Eisler]] stayed several times to set a large group of the poems to music in collaboration with Brecht. |
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| - | It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]]. The novel shows the influence of [[industrialism]] on the rural [[:wikt:heartland|heartland]] of America. | + | |
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Svendborger Gedichte ('Svendborg Poems') is a poetry collection by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, and the last collection of new poems to be published while he lived. The collection is named after the town of Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, where Brecht lived during his exile from Nazi Germany. During this period, Hanns Eisler stayed several times to set a large group of the poems to music in collaboration with Brecht.
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