Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 120)

Hölderlin, Friedrich

ISBN 10: 0691014124 / ISBN 13: 9780691014128

Published by Princeton University Press, 1984

About this Item

Text in English and German on opposing pages. Near Fine paperback copy; tight binding, just a touch of shelfwear. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 120)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691014124
• ISBN 13: 9780691014128
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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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.

About the Author

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