The German-born poet and playwright Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize, is noted for her austere but moving work, which constitutes a solemn monument to the hardships and sorrows of th...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Spender
One terrible aspect of our century is that fantasies horrible as the worst nightmares of writers like Baudelaire and Dostoevsky in the previous century have become li...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Slater
[The publication of Nelly Sach's O The Chimneys, a selection of her work in translation,] enables the greatness of her spirit and her art to cross the frontier i...
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Critical Essay by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Prior to the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1966, Nelly Sachs, co-winner with S. Y. Agnon, was largely unknown, especially in this country. Alm...
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Schwebell is an author and translator. In the following essay, she traces Sachs' poetry career from its beginnings in Sweden, noting the gradual growth of her popularity in Sweden and Germany a...
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In the following essay, McClain examines the "images of transformation" in Sachs's Holocaust poems, and discusses poems which provide insight into the personal losses the Holocaus...
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In the following excerpt from her dissertation entitled "Nelly Sachs and Kabbala," Holzer discusses the problem of conveying in other languages the multiple meanings created in Sachs�...
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In the following essay, Cervantes discusses Sachs's role as the "voice of the silenced victims" of the Holocaust.
In her exhaustive study, Accounting for Genocide, Helen Fein take...
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In the following essay, Strenger examines Sachs's use of the body as a symbol in her work.
The Hasidic tales collected by Martin Buber constituted part of Nelly Sachs's initial significa...
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In the following essay, Kurz presents a deep analysis of Sachs's poetry, concentrating on her use of biblical imagery and of symbols including the butterfly.
Klaus Nonnenmann does not even ment...
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In the following essay, Kahn explores Sachs's unique place among modern poets.
In its treatment of recent poetry literary history likes to employ the term "modern" to emphasize th...
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In the following excerpt from a review of several authors' work, Carruth describes O the Chimneys as deeply moving, and notes the influence of the Nobel Prize in bringing Sachs's work to...
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In the following review, the critic praises Selected Poems in spite of some "signs of hurry" evident in the translation of the poems from German to English.
Nelly Sachs was almost unknow...
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In the following essay, Bahr explains the elements of Jewish mysticism in Eli.
Nelly Sachs' Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels, one of her Szenische Dichtungen, as she has called her ve...
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In the following essay, Bosmajian presents a deep analysis of "Landschaft aus Schreien," emphasizing Sachs's use of imagery and symbolism.
Nelly Sachs's poems disprove and ...
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In the following essay, Dodds examines Eli as a work representative of the influence of Hasidism on Sachs's writing. The piece includes a concise explanation of Hasidism and its place within Ju...
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In the following essay, Langer discusses Sachs's treatment of divine and human justice in her writings.
One of the last poems Nelly Sachs wrote before her death is called "Teile dich Nac...
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Nelly Sachs
