Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) - Softcover

Hölderlin, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691014124 ISBN 13: 9780691014128

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1984

Synopsis

An annotated bilingual edition of Hölderlin’s radical and influential late poetry

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Hölderlin’s late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Sieburth’s critical introduction discusses the poet’s career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Hölderlin’s ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.

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About the Author

Richard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.

From the Back Cover

Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make Friedrich Holderlin a contemporary. Including his late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691014124
• ISBN 13: 9780691014128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312