The Solid Letter
Subtitle: Readings of Friedrich Holderlin (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780804729437
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Poetry & poets; Literary Criticism; European - German; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Germany; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; 1770-1843; Criticism and interpretation; Holderlin, Friedrich,; Hèolderlin, Friedrich,
First sentence: Holderlin's works have been the occasion for so many philosophical investigations into the nature of poetry that, in contrast to the often cited description of him as the "poet of poets," he has become over the last eighty years the poet of philosophers.