Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics)

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Product Description 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. Review The Angry Poet The Archipelago As On A Holiday At One Time I Questioned The Muse At The Source Of The Danube Autumn The Blind Singer Bread And Wine Brevity But When The Heavenly Chiron Colombo Conviction The Course Of Life (1) The Course Of Life (2) The Departed Descriptive Poetry Diotima (1) Diotima (2) The Eagle Evening Fantasy Exhortation (second Version) The Farewell (second Version) The Fettered River For From The Abyss We For When The Grape-vine's Sap Ganymede German Song Germania Go Down, Then, Lovely Sun... Good Advice Good Faith Greece (third Version) Heidelberg Her Recovery Her Recovery Home Home (1) Home (2) Homecoming Human Applause Hyperion's Song Of Fate If From The Distance... In Socrates' Time In The Morning The Ister The Journey Love Man Menon's Lament For Diotima The Merry Life Mnemosyne (third Version) My Possessions Narcissi, Ranunculi And Nature And Art Or Saturn And Jupiter The Neckar The Nook At Hardt On Fallow Foliage On The Birth Of A Child The Only One (first Version) The Only One (second Version) Patmos Patmos (fragments Of The Later Version) The Poet's Courage (first Version) The Poet's Vocation Remembrance Return To The Homeland The Rhine The River Man The Root Of All Evil Rousseau The Sanctimonious Poets Socrates And Alcibiades Sophocles The Spirit Of The Age Spring Stuttgart Summer Summer Sung Beneath The Alps Sunset Tears Timidness The Titans To Diotima To Hope To Our Great Poets To Princess Augusta Of Homburg To The Fates To The Germans To The Germans To The Virgin Mary To The Young Poets To Zimmer The Traveller The Unpardonable Voice Of The People (second Version) Vulcan The Walk What Is God What Is The Life Of Men Whatever Is Nearest (third Version) Where There's A Flaming Above The Vinyard Winter The World's Agreeable Things... You Firmly Built Alps -- Table of Poems from About the Author As well as his poems on classical themes, the German poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is author of the novel HYPERION. Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924. His family emigrated to England in 1933. His own collections of poetry include FLOWERING CACTUS, WEATHER AND SEASON and OWNERLESS EARTH: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and his many distinguished translations include versions of Hofmannsthal and Grass, as well as the POEMS AND FRAGMENTS, on which he worked for many years.