Literature

Hymns and Fragments

    Translated by
  • Richard Sieburth

An annotated bilingual edition of H枚lderlin鈥檚 radical and influential late poetry

Paperback

Price:
$35.00/拢30.00
ISBN:
Published:
Sep 21, 1984
1985
Pages:
312
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich H枚lderlin (1770鈥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 H枚lderlin鈥檚 late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

Sieburth鈥檚 critical introduction discusses the poet鈥檚 career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores H枚lderlin鈥檚 ongoing importance to modern poetics and philosophy. Annotations explicate the individual poems, a number of which are translated into English for the first time.


Awards and Recognition

  • Richard Sieburth, Winner of a 2017 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters