Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
by
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)...