Lasker-Schüler, Else - G. Guder (essay date 1965)

G. Guder (essay date 1965)

SOURCE: "The Significance of Love in the Poetry of Else Lasker-Schuler," in German Life & Letters, Vol. XVIII, 1964-65, pp. 177-88.

[In the following essay, Guder compares Lasker-Schüler's concept of love to that of the German Expressionists, and examines the effect of her personal experiences on the emotional outlook of her poetry.]

Robert P. Newton on Lasker-Schüler's poetic talent:

Undoubtedly there are many unresolved problems of critical evaluation which await resolution for Else Lasker-Schüler's work. Despite some exquisitely finished poems, she leans to stylistic carelessness and is not immune to rashes of saccharine sentimentality. No one would claim that all her poems are guided by a coherent logic (but, then, what about [Georg] Trakl and [Gottfried] Benn?). Nevertheless, a good deal of her imagery is original and symbolically well-founded, and many of her...

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