Selected Poems and Fragments
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), regarded as one of the giants of German literature, produced a large body of lyric poetry and a novel, HYPERION, before becoming insane in 1802. His ode to the wife of a banker to whose children he was tutor and his hymns exploring cosmology and history are as...
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Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), regarded as one of the giants of German literature, produced a large body of lyric poetry and a novel, HYPERION, before becoming insane in 1802. His ode to the wife of a banker to whose children he was tutor and his hymns exploring cosmology and history are as extraordinary as the visionary lyrics of Blake and Yeats.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140424164 (0140424164)
Publish date: September 1st 1998
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
ForewordPrefaceIntroductionBiographical NoteOdes and Epigrams (1797-1799)Epigrams (1797)--Good Advice--Descriptive Poetry--To Diotima--Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse...')--Bonaparte--Empedocles--To the Fates--Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them...')--To Her Genius--Plea f...