Hymns and Fragments (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

ISBN: 0691014124

Author: H

Condition: New

An annotated bilingual edition of Hlderlins radical and influential late poetryDespite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hlderlin (1770-1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetry. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this annotated translation conveys the radical idiom and vision that continue to make him a contemporary. Richard Sieburth includes almost all Hlderlins late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.Sieburths critical introduction discusses the poets career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores Hlderlins ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.