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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780804729420
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Poetry & poets; Hèolderlin, Friedrich,; German Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Literary Criticism; Germany; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - German; Poetry; Greece; Holderlin, Friedrich; Keats, John; Knowledge; Literary Criticism & Collections / German; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; 1770-1843; Criticism and interpretation; Holderlin, 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.