Friedrich Hölderlin

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.

Selected Poems and Fragments

Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland

A philosophical tale of nature, spiritual striving, beauty, and Platonic love.

Hyperion, Or, The Hermit in Greece

The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.

Hymns and Fragments

hīpiriyūn

Gūshah nishīn dar yūnān

One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich H�lderlin (1770�1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. H�lderlin's letters to friends and fellow writers such as Hegel, Schiller and Goethe describe his development as a poet, while those written to his family speak with great passion of his beliefs and aspirations, as well as revealing money worries and, finally, the tragic unravelling of his sanity. These works examine H�lderlin's great preoccupations � the unity of existence, the relationship between art and nature and, above all, the spirit of the writer.

Essays and Letters

precedidos de algunos testimonios de sus contemporáneos sobre los "años oscuros" del poeta

Poemas de la locura

Further solidifying Hölderlin's place in history, this thorough collection of poetry ranges from the odes of his developmental period to the majestic hymns and strangely prophetic modern compositions created in his later years. Considered one of the founders of European romanticism, Hölderlin had a mere 10 years to develop his distinctive style before falling prey to a debilitating mental illness, whose resultant works are the heartbreakingly sweet and melancholy pieces of the Späteste Gedichte (Last Poems). Each poem is presented in both its original German and a new English translation, while an illuminating introduction explores Hölderlin's significance in the realm of literature as well as the tumultuous world in which he lived.

Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin

Sophocles

David Constantine

Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. David Constantine's Selected Poems of Holderlin won him the 1997 European Poetry Translation Prize. Now he has turned to Holderin's versions of Sophocles, seeking to create an equivalent English for these extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. Constantine has translated Holderlin's translations, carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into his English. The plays themselves need no introduction or apology. These double translations, links in literature from land to land and from age to age, demonstrate the vitality of ancient and modern poetic tradition.

Oedipus & Antigone

Hölderlin's Sophocles

Friedrich Hölderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations, winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. This second edition has since been superseded an enlarged and expanded edition, Selected Poetry (2018).

Selected Poems

نیتِ خیر

Judgment and Being

Poems And Fragments

Muerte de Empedocles, La

Hölderlin - Sämtliche Werke

Frankfurter Ausgabe : [historisch-kritische Ausgabe]

Sämtliche Werke

Bertolt Brecht

Judith Malina

(Applause Books). Sophocles, Holderlin, Brecht, Malina four major figures in the world's theatre have all left their imprint on this remarkable dramatic text. Friedrich Holderlin translated Sophocles into German, Brecht adapted Holderlin, and now Judith Malina has rendered Brecht's version into a stunning English incarnation. Available for the first time in English.

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