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.

Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

HÖLDERLIN, Friedrich

Poetry

Penguin Classics

The twenty-eight poems by Friedrich H&#65533;lderlin presented here were most probably written during the last eleven years of his life from 1832 to 1843, after his bout of "madness". They present the following characteristics: their prosody is in iambic pentameters or hexameters, with feminine rhymes, their subject matter is impersonal contemplation. The importance in these poems of rhythm, and of sound more generally, brings to mind H&#65533;lderlin's words, as reported by Bettina Von Arnim: "The laws of the mind are rhythmical. (...) As long as the poet is still looking for the metrical accent and is not carried forward by the rhythm, his poetry is without truth (...) what is poetry is the fact that the mind can only express itself in rhythms, that its language is rhythm". The goal of the translator has been to make this music "heard" as much as possible.

Selected Last Poems

lulu.com

Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (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 Hölderlin's poetry for our age.Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He is one of our leading poets and critics, as well as the foremost contemporary translator of German poetry. His `Collected Poems 1941-1994' and several later books of poetry are published by Anvil, as is his `Poems of Paul Celan', for which he was awarded the EC's first European Translation Prize in 1992. Anvil has also published his selections from the poetry of Goethe, Rilke and Peter Huchel and his critical study of modern poetry, `The Truth of Poetry'.

Poems and Fragments

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.

The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-play (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays. On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin’s essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin’s life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles―including Hölderlin’s Empedocles―detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.

The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Dramas & Plays

State Univ of New York Pr

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays. On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin’s essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin’s life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles―including Hölderlin’s Empedocles―detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.

State University of New York Press

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Hyperion

Literary

Continuum+publishing

Powerful translations of a seminal figure in modern poetry\nGladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm 
From his harvest on faraway isles; 
If only I too were homeward bound; 
Yet what harvest have I but sorrow?―\nO blessèd riverbanks that raised me, 
Can you ease the sorrows of love? Ah, when I come 
To you, woods of my youth, will you 
Grant me peace once again? 
―From "Home"\nFor more than a century, Friedrich Hölderlin has been considered one of the key figures in modern European literature. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing and heartbreak of Hölderlin's poetic world. A bilingual edition, this book is the first major translation of these poems since the 1960s. Odes and Elegies opens to the English reader the unique poetic voice that marks Hölderlin's achievement and continuing influence on poetry and philosophy today.\nSample Poem:\nGladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm 
From his harvest on faraway isles; 
If only I too were homeward bound; 
Yet what harvest have I but sorrow?―\nO blessèd riverbanks that raised me, 
Can you ease the sorrows of love? Ah, when I come 
To you, woods of my youth, will you 
Grant me peace once again? 
―From "Home"

Odes and Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

History & Criticism

Wesleyan University Press

Hyperion and Selected Poems (German Library)

Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)

Selected Last Poems

Poems and Fragments

Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-play (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Hyperion

Odes and Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Hyperion and Selected Poems (German Library)