Selected poems and fragments
By: Friedrich Hölderlin ; translated by Michael Hamburger ; edited by Jeremy Adler ; with a new preface and an introduction by Michael Hamburger.
Contributors: Hamburger, Michael.; Adler, Jeremy D.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843), regarded as one of the giants of German literature, produced a large body of lyric poetry and a novel, HYPERION, before becoming insane in 1802. His ode to the wife of a banker to whose children he was tutor and his hymns exploring cosmology and history are as extraordinary as the visionary lyrics of Blake and Yeats.
Notes: Poems in English and German on opposite pages.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-255) and indexes.