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The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translations. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. Constantine's translations make him accessible, even informal. This is a stimulating introduction to the work of a poet who addresses us ever more urgently as the millennium ends. This edition contains several new translations, including one of the great elegy "" - Bread and Wine."" The odes and hymns are more fully represented, and there are further extracts, in an equivalent English, from Hölderlin's extraordinary German versions of Sophocles.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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Original Language: German
Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was a great European poet whose works have been ably translated into English by David Constantine, making some of the finest poetry ever written available to today's English speaking readerships. Holderlin's poetry is deeply religious, often referencing images of antiquity, and always directly confronts the universal human problems of the need for meaning, expression, hope in an often hostile and uncertain world. As upon seacoasts when the gods/Begin to build and the work of the waves/Ships in unstoppably wave/After wave, in splendour, and the earth/Attires itself and then comes joy/A supreme, tuneful joy, setting the work to rights. /So upon the poem/When the wine-god points and promises/And with the darling of Greece,/Seaborn, veiling her looks,/The waves beach their abundance. -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherBloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 1852241667
- ISBN 13 9781852241667
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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