Selected poems and fragments
- London : Penguin Books, 1998
- xlv, 352 p. ; 20 cm
- Penguin classics .
Translation from the German. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Holderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 Love poetry Romance Germany