Selected Poems and Fragments
Author
Original Work
Translator
Editor
Jeremy Adler
Foreword / Afterword
Michael Hamburger
Language
Year
1998
Publisher
Country
United Kingdom
Pages
352
ISBN
9780140424164
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of Night’, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an unprecedented style, which anticipates the Symbolists and Surrealists. Together the works collected here show Hölderlin’s use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.— Google Books
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