Selected Poems and Fragments
Friedrich Hölderlin author Michael Hamburger author Michael Hamburger translator Jeremy Adler editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th May '98
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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.
ISBN: 9780140424164
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight: 291g
400 pages