Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition

by Friedrich H÷lderlin, Michael Hamburger (Translator), Michael Hamburger (Preface by), Michael Hamburger (Introduction), Jeremy Adler (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140424164
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	651,810
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.89(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

As well as his poems on classical themes, the German poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is author of the novel HYPERION. Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924. His family emigrated to England in 1933. His own collections of poetry include FLOWERING CACTUS, WEATHER AND SEASON and OWNERLESS EARTH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and his many distinguished translations include versions of Hofmannsthal and Grass, as well as the POEMS AND FRAGMENTS, on which he worked for many years.