Odes and Elegies

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Author: Friedrich Hoelderlin

ISBN-10: 0819568902

ISBN-13: 9780819568908

Category: German poetry -> 18th - 19th century

Friedrich Hoelderlin emerged in the early 20th century as one of the key figures of modern European literature. This comprehensive selection of over 80 of his odes, hexameters, and elegies is taken from the important early period of his mature work--a time in which we encounter the poet open to nature and love with a rare vulnerability. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing and heartbreak of...

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Powerful new translations of this seminal figure in modern poetry

I Poems from the Early Frankfurt PeriodII The Shorter OdesIII Later Odes; Elegies and Elegiac FragmentsIV NightsongsApp. A German Editions of HolderlinApp. B Meter in HolderlinApp. C Notes to the PoemsApp. D Table of Expanded PoemsIndex of English TitlesIndex of German TitlesIndex of English First LinesIndex of German First Lines