The present article deals with the different moments of Erich Fried's exile in England as well as the influence of English culture and ideology on his poetry. During his forced exile from 1938 to 1945 he thought of going back to Austria after the war, but finally remained in England till his death. He didn't want to be integrated into the country nor its literary life; he never tried to write in English for example. He first wrote for a German audience of exiled people, then for Germans and Austrians in general. From the 1970s onwards he spent more time in Germany than in England. He explains the passage from a political poetry to a so-called apolitical one because of the ideological climate in the 1950s in England. The article tries to show that the depoliticization of Fried's poetry concerns mainly the ideological approach of his themes more than the themes themselves. He doesn't look to Marxism to find an explanation for war, racism or anti-Semitism, but to ethnology and to Jungian fairy tales. The repoliticization of Fried's poetry in the 1960s seems mainly due to the politicization of English poetry at the end of the 1950s. The article ends with some reflections on his activity as a translator which remains his main contribution to the culture of the country that welcomed him when he was 17. © Klincksieck. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

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