translate English to German: Some went so far as to claim that his late poems written in the asylum (the so-called "tower poems"), full of " Homeric beauty", were the crystallization of his thoughts, and thus the greatest part of his works; and that his madness was indeed a voluntary one. Such claims are generally dismissed as romantic exaggeration today.
»Der Sommer«: Hölderlin unterzeichnete es mit »in Untertänigkeit Scardanelli« und versah es mit dem Datum 9. März 1840 .