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Erich Fried (1921-1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator who fled Nazi Germany and settled in London. He wrote political and love poems, as well as plays and novels, and translated works by Shakespeare, Eliot, and Thomas.
Erich Fried was an Austrian poet who settled in England and wrote political-minded poetry. He also translated works by Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. Read some of his poems and learn about his life and legacy.
A poem by Erich Fried, a German poet and playwright, that explores different perspectives on an unnamed subject. The poem contrasts reason, love, calculation, fear, insight, pride, caution, and experience, and challenges the validity of societal norms.
edit data. Erich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator of Jewish descent. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into ...
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- November 22, 1988
- May 6, 1921
Erich Fried war ein österreichischer Lyriker, Übersetzer und Essayist, der ab 1938 in London im Exil lebte. Er schrieb politische Gedichte, übersetzte Shakespeare und andere Autoren und war mit der 68er-Bewegung verbunden.
Nov 24, 1988 · Erich Fried, a poet who translated Shakespeare's works into modern German, died of cancer Tuesday at a hospital in Baden-Baden, West Germany. He was 67 years old. Mr. Fried, an Austrian Jew, was ...
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Erich Fried was not only a distinguished and prolific poet—he said once in a characteristic phrase that he wrote poems the way rabbits have babies—but a novelist, essayist and translator of Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and Eliot. These achievements have been recognized throughout Europe but are only now beginning to be appreciated in Britain.
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