Documents of protest and compassion
Subtitle: the poetry of Walter Bauer
By: Angelika Arend.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Bauer, Walter, 1904- -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Documents of Protest and Compassion offers the first extensive critical assessment of Walter Bauer's considerable poetic oeuvre. In this long-overdue supplement to recent anthologies of Bauer's poetry and essays on his life and work, Angelika Arend draws on Bauer's diaries and letters to reveal the profoundly humane intentions that guided his choice of themes and structures.

She shows how Bauer's simple, yet carefully crafted poems were mainly concerned with social protest and brotherly compassion, shared responsibility, and critical self-reflection."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii; title: Abbreviations ix; title: Introduction 3; title: 1 Poetic Creed 7; title: THE OLD WORLD; title: 2 Mastering the Craft 23; title: 3 Critical Strategies 39; title: AND THE NEW; title: 4 The Price of Immigration 57; title: 5 Holding Up the Mirror 70; title: 6 Old Virtues Revisited 84; title: 7 Theatrum Mundi 103; title: 8 The Courage of Old Age 118; title: Postscript 135; title: Notes 137; title: Works Cited 143; title: Ihdex 147.