Friedrich Holderlin: Selected Poems

Holderlin, Friedrich; David Constantine (translator)

ISBN 10: 1852243783 ISBN 13: 9781852243784

Published by Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 1996

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Soft cover

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Title

Friedrich Holderlin: Selected Poems

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

1852243783

ISBN 13

9781852243784

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

Expanded Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translationsFriedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's

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H�lderlin is a poet we can read with our own atrocious times in mind. He is a deeply religious poet whose fundamental tenet is absence and the threat of meaninglessness. He confronted hopelessness as few writers have, he was what Rilke called "exposed"; but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope, for the expression, in the body and breath of poems, of the best and most passionate aspirations. --David Constantine

Constantine goes for an "equivalence of spirit" in a more familiar idiom. This is at once a bold and humble undertaking, and has produced poetry of a remarkable luminosity and intensity, written in rhythms and cadences which recreate, both in their extremities of grief and their urgent hope, the immediacy of the original. --Karen Leeder, Oxford Poetry

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