Sonnets for the State

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William Shakespeare’s best-remembered sonnet compared someone to a summer’s day. The poet Johannes Becher, once East Germany’s minister of culture, compared the essence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to a sonnet. According to Philip Oltermann’s The Stasi Poetry Circle, he “believed that sonnets structurally mirrored the Marxist view of historical progress,” the materialist version […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/09/sonnets-for-the-state-stasi-poetry-circle-oltermann/

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