Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems and fragments / Friedrich Hölderlin ; translated by Michael Hamburger ; edited by Jeremy Adler ; with a new preface and an introduction by Michael Hamburger.

Author

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843

Publication

London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hamburger, Michael
• Adler, Jeremy D.

Description

xlv, 352 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English & German
• Penguin classics

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 > Translations into English
• Love poetry, Romance-language > Germany
• Love poetry, Romance-language > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xliv]-xlv) and indexes.

Language (note)

• English and German on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Good Advice -- Descriptive Poetry -- To Diotima -- Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse ...') -- Bonaparte -- Empedocles -- To the Fates -- Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them ...') -- To Her Genius -- Plea for Forgiveness -- Then and Now -- Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired ...') -- Brevity -- Human Applause -- Home ('Content the boatman turns ...') -- Good Faith -- Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend ...') -- Unpardonable -- To the Young Poets -- To the Germans ('Do not laugh ...') -- Sanctimonious Poets -- Sunset -- To Our Great Poets -- Socrates and Alcibiades -- Sophocles -- Angry Poet -- Root of All Evil -- Man -- Hyperion's Song of Fate -- In my boyhood days ... -- Spirit of the Age -- Evening Fantasy -- In the Morning -- River Main -- My Possessions -- To Princess Augusta of Homburg -- Go down, then, lovely sun ... -- To the Germans ('Never laugh at ...') -- Rousseau -- Heidelberg (Alcaic version) -- Neckar -- Home ('Content the boatman turns ...') -- Love -- Course of Life ('More you also desired ...') -- Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved ...') -- Farewell (second version) -- Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown ...') -- Return to the Homeland -- Ancestral Portrait -- Departed -- Exhortation (second version) -- Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter -- Sung beneath the Alps -- Poet's Vocation -- Voice of the People (second version) -- Blind Singer -- Chiron -- Tears -- To Hope -- Vulcan -- Poet's Courage (first version) -- Timidness -- Fettered River -- Ganymede -- Archipelago -- Menon's Lament for Diotima -- Traveller -- Stuttgart -- Bread and Wine -- Homecoming -- Ages of Life -- Half of Life -- Nook at Hardt -- As on a holiday ... -- At the Source of the Danube -- Journey -- Germania -- Rhine -- Celebration of Peace -- Only One (first version) -- Only One (second version) -- Patmos -- Patmos (fragments of the later version) -- Remembrance -- Ister -- Mnemosyne (third version) -- German Song -- Home ('And no one knows ...') -- For when the grape-vine's sap ... -- On fallow foliage ... -- What is the life of men ... -- What is God? ... -- To the Virgin Mary -- Titans -- At one time I questioned the Muse ... -- But when the heavenly ... -- Eagle -- You firmly built alps ... -- Whatever is Nearest (third version) -- Colombo -- When there's a flaming ... -- For from the abyss ... -- Narcissi ... -- In Socrates' Time -- Greece (third version) -- If from the distance ... -- On the Birth of a Child -- world's agreeable things ... -- To Zimmer ('The lines of life ...') -- Conviction -- Merry Life -- Walk -- Spring ('New day descends ...') -- Summer ('When then the blooms ...') -- Summer ('Still you can see ...') -- Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam ...') -- Winter ('When past, unseen ...') -- Spring ('When springtime from the depth ...').

ISBN

0140424164 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 40059680
• SCSB-10611201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library