Hymns to the Night. Translated by Jeremy Reed and with an introductory essay, 'Novalis and the Night', by David Gascoyne

NOVALIS, pseud., i.e. Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg

ISBN 10: 1870612655 / ISBN 13: 9781870612654

Published by Petersfield: Enitharmon Press, 1989

About this Item

Fine copy in dustwrapper. "This hardcover edition is limited to 200 copies, the first 50 of which are signed by David Gascoyne and Jeremy Reed" - this copy unnumbered and unsigned but inscribed "JEREMY REED'S COPY", and by him on the title-page to the poet and publisher Robin Robertson, "For Robin With Love Jeremy October 1989"; loosely inserted his presentation autograph postcard signed, "I forgot there was to be a hardback edition of this little piece of ephemera . . .".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hymns to the Night. Translated by Jeremy Reed and with an introductory essay, 'Novalis and the Night', by David Gascoyne
• Publisher: Petersfield: Enitharmon Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870612655
• ISBN 13: 9781870612654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Dimensions: 1.27W x 14.61H x 22.86D centimeters 1.27 centimeters width by 14.61 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 181 grams
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This, the great mystic work of Georg Phillip Friedrich von Hardenberg, the early German romantic poet known as `Novalis', was written between 1797 and 1800. No English translation of it has appeared for many years. In his conclusion Gascoyne writes: The Hymns are an expression of spontaneous faith without parallel in the contemporary world.

About the Author

Jeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his 'rich and careful writing' and by David Lodge for his 'remarkable lyric gift'. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1987. Subsequent collections have been Nineties (Cape, 1990), Dicing for Pearls (1990), Pop Stars (1994), Sweet Sister Lyric (1996), Saint Billie (2001) and Duck and Sally Inside (2004), all from Enitharmon Press. He has also published Heartbreak Hotel (Orion, 2002), a verse biography of Elvis Presley.