Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | Lasker-Schüler, Else - G. Guder (essay date 1965)

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...