Poems and Fragments
by Friedrich Hölderlin
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Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Holderlin's poetry for our age. Book jacket.Tags
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A tratti mi ha dato la sensazione di veleggiare sospinto dall'etere (elemento più nobile dell'aria).
Da una lettura come questa si esce ingentiliti.
Merito, grande merito, dell'ottimo lavoro di introduzione, traduzione e commento.
Un'unica cosa: con l'insorgere della follia Hoelderlin diventa poco meglio di Bondi... le ultime liriche del libro sembrano scritte da un altro. Che cosa gli sarà successo? Urge biografia.
Da una lettura come questa si esce ingentiliti.
Merito, grande merito, dell'ottimo lavoro di introduzione, traduzione e commento.
Un'unica cosa: con l'insorgere della follia Hoelderlin diventa poco meglio di Bondi... le ultime liriche del libro sembrano scritte da un altro. Che cosa gli sarà successo? Urge biografia.
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The German lyric poet John Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was born in 1770. Admired for his ability to re-create the forms of classical Greek poetry in German verse, Holderlin also completed the novel Hyperion. Holderlin studied theology at the University of Tubingen, where he obtained a Master's degree. As a young man he worked as a tutor, show more including in the house of a wealthy Frankfurt banker, where he and his employer's wife, Susette, fell in love. After a short, happy affair, Holderlin was forced to leave. Though he was shaken by the experience, Holderlin created much of his finest work during this period, including elegies and odes. Shortly thereafter, Holderlin began to suffer from schizophrenia and composed several poems that were notable for their apocalyptic grandeur. For the last thirty-six years of his life, he suffered from chronic mental illness. Holderlin died in 1843. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- "Poems and Fragments" is Michael Hamburger's translation of Hölderlin's collected poetic work, published by Anvil and other presses. "Selected Poems and Fragments" is a selection published by Penguin, taken from this complet... (show all)e edition. Please do not combine the two.
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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- 831.6 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German poetry 1750–1832 : 18th century; classical period; romantic period
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- PT2359 .H2 .A6 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1700-ca. 1860/70
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