Leaves of Mourning Holderlin's Late Work - With an Essay on Keats and Melancholy

Examines allegory in Holderlin's later work, exploring subjects such as Freud and Derrida's views of mourning, and offering original readings of works including Impossible Ode, Mnemosyne, and The Churchyard. Originally published in German as Laub voll Trauer: Holderlins spate Allegorie in 1991 by Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR