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Hymns and Fragments

An annotated bilingual edition of Hölderlin’s radical and influential late poetry

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Hölderlin’s late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Sieburth’s critical introduction discusses the poet’s career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Hölderlin’s ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.

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Hymns and Fragments

An annotated bilingual edition of Hölderlin’s radical and influential late poetry

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Hölderlin’s late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Sieburth’s critical introduction discusses the poet’s career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Hölderlin’s ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.

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Hymns and Fragments

Hymns and Fragments

Hymns and Fragments

Hymns and Fragments

Overview

An annotated bilingual edition of Hölderlin’s radical and influential late poetry

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Hölderlin’s late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Sieburth’s critical introduction discusses the poet’s career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Hölderlin’s ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400883998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 06/10/2016
Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation , #27
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Richard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.

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From the Publisher

“This is an admirable work. It reads like poetry, which is not true of all translations. The introduction and notes are extremely valuable.”—Lisel Mueller, translator of Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz

“This is a very exciting book. Sieburth’s translations are transparent; they let Hölderlin come through.”—D. S. Carne-Ross, Boston University

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