Selected Poems and Fragments

Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Poetry
Cover of the book Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, Penguin Books Ltd
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Author: Friedrich Hölderlin ISBN: 9780141962184
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Publication: February 22, 2007
Imprint: Penguin Language: English
Author: Friedrich Hölderlin
ISBN: 9780141962184
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication: February 22, 2007
Imprint: Penguin
Language: English

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of Night’, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an unprecedented style, which anticipates the Symbolists and Surrealists. Together the works collected here show Hölderlin’s use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.

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Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of Night’, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an unprecedented style, which anticipates the Symbolists and Surrealists. Together the works collected here show Hölderlin’s use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.

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