Friedrich H lderlin (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 H lderlin's use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.

Powerful translations of a seminal figure in modern poetry

Gladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm
From his harvest on faraway isles;
If only I too were homeward bound;
Yet what harvest have I but sorrow?--

O blessèd riverbanks that raised me,
Can you ease the sorrows of love? Ah, when I come
To you, woods of my youth, will you
Grant me peace once again?
--From Home

For more than a century, Friedrich Hölderlin has been considered one of the key figures in modern European literature. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing and heartbreak of Hölderlin's poetic world. A bilingual edition, this book is the first major translation of these poems since the 1960s. Odes and Elegies opens to the English reader the unique poetic voice that marks Hölderlin's achievement and continuing influence on poetry and philosophy today.

Sample Poem:

Gladly the boatman turns home to the river's calm
From his harvest on faraway isles;
If only I too were homeward bound;
Yet what harvest have I but sorrow?--

O blessèd riverbanks that raised me,
Can you ease the sorrows of love? Ah, when I come
To you, woods of my youth, will you
Grant me peace once again?
--From Home

Friedrich H lderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised H lderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of H lderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for H lderlin's extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translations of H lderlin. This new volume presents a substantial selection from the work of a poet who, writing around 1800, addresses us ever more urgently two centuries later. H lderlin translated all his writing life. Through translation he reached a poetic language of his own, so that much of his best poetry reads like a translation from elsewhere. He was intensely occupied with Sophocles in the winter of 1803-04. His versions of Oedipus Rex and Antigone (he worked at but never finished Oedipus at Colonus and Ajax) came out in the spring of 1804 and were taken, by the learned, as conclusive proof of his insanity. He was by then very near to mental collapse, but no one now would dismiss his work for that. He translated in a radical and idiosyncratic way, cleaving close to the Greek yet at the same time striving to interpret these ancient, foreign and - as he thought - sacred originals, and so bring them home into the modern day and age. Constantine has translated H lderlin's translations, carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into his English. The plays themselves need no introduction or apology. These double translations, links in literature from land to land and from age to age, demonstrate the vitality of ancient and modern poetic tradition. Carl Orff used H lderlin's texts for his operas Antigonae (1949) and Oedipus der Tyrann (1959), with the producers of recent DVDs of Orff's operas later choosing to use Constantine's texts for their English subtitles.

An annotated bilingual edition of Hölderlin's radical and influential late poetry

Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin (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 Hölderlin's late poems in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just prior to his hospitalization for insanity.

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

Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung von Werken des deutsch-schweizerischen Dichters Friedrich Hölderlin. Hier besonders der Roman Hyperion, einer seiner bekanntesten Werke. Es ist eine wertvolle Ressource für Liebhaber von Literatur und von deutschen Klassikern.

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Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe.

Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe.

Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1847.

Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte B cher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und F rderung der Kultur. Sie tr gt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten.

Die Auswahl bringt, chronologisch gereiht, 93 schönste, bedeutsamste, eindrucksvollste, manchmal auch verstörende lyrische Schöpfungen Friedrich Hölderlins. Sich selbst überwindend, sprachkräftig, gedankenmächtig. Natur-, Landschafts- und Liebesgedichte in Hölderlins charakteristisch eigenem Stil zwischen Klassik und Romantik, durchwirkt von Griechentum, Ideal, Erneuerung, mythologisch, versunken, sehnsüchtig, seherisch, hymnisch in freien Rhythmen, symbolisch dunkel, geheimnisvoll, Leben, Tod, Götter, Christentum und Heimat. Ein Höhepunkt abendländischer Literatur mit durchdringendem Einfluss auf die Dichtkunst vieler Lyriker, etwa Stefan George, Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann. Hölderlins hymnisches Spätwerk inspirierte philosophische Überlegungen bei Martin Heidegger, Theodor W. Adorno, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

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Friedrich H lderlin's Odes are built upon precise syllabic and rhythmic schemes, inspired by poetic forms originating from ancient Greece. In the hope of giving an idea of the music they produce, the present English translations strive to reproduce their metrics. They are speaking to us of a longing for the childhood of humankind, for Greece where the voice of the gods could still be heard, and of the danger lying in trying to find again that too powerful voice which is that of unmitigated reality, re-enchanted and therefore striking like lightning: For they who lend us the fire of heaven, / The gods, with a holy pain endow us too. But it is in that danger that also lies salvation, however brief: The savior I then hear in the night, I hear / Him kill, the liberator, and give life too.

The twenty-eight poems by Friedrich H lderlin presented here were most probably written during the last eleven years of his life from 1832 to 1843, after his bout of madness. They present the following characteristics: their prosody is in iambic pentameters or hexameters, with feminine rhymes, their subject matter is impersonal contemplation. The importance in these poems of rhythm, and of sound more generally, brings to mind H lderlin's words, as reported by Bettina Von Arnim: The laws of the mind are rhythmical. (...) As long as the poet is still looking for the metrical accent and is not carried forward by the rhythm, his poetry is without truth (...) what is poetry is the fact that the mind can only express itself in rhythms, that its language is rhythm. The goal of the translator has been to make this music heard as much as possible.

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Friedrich H lderlin: Der Tod des Empedokles. Ein Trauerspiel in f nf Akten Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2017. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich H lderlin: S mtliche Werke. Kleine Stuttgarter Ausgabe, 6 B nde, Band 4, Herausgegeben von Friedrich Beissner, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1962. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgef hrt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Salvator Rosa, Der Tod des Empedokles, zwischen 1665 und 1670. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Der Name Hyperion bedeutet der oben Gehende. Der Roman ist ein Selbstbekenntnis, das trotz mancher jugendlich-schw rmerischen Z ge H lderlins Lebensschau und Seelentum vergegenw rtigt. Die Natur, die in den Schlussbriefen hymnisch gefeiert wird, wird verehrt als der gotterf llte Raum. In der Schilderung Griechenlands durchdringen sich Vergangenheit und Zukunft, Traum und Verhei ung. Hyperion, der r ckschauend seinem deutschen Freund Bellarmin von seinem Leben berichtet, w chst in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts in S dgriechenland im Frieden der Natur auf. Sein weiser Lehrer Adamas f hrt ihn in die Heroenwelt des Plutarch, dann in das Zauberland der griechischen G tter und begeistert ihn f r die griechische Vergangenheit. Sein tatkr ftiger Freund Alabanda weiht ihn in die Pl ne zur Befreiung Griechenlands ein. In Kalaurea lernt er Diotima kennen. Sie gibt ihm die Kraft zur Tat. Er nimmt im Jahre 1770 am Befreiungskrieg der Griechen gegen die T rken teil, dem Osmanischen Krieg. Die Rohheit des Krieges st t ihn jedoch ab. Er wird schwer verwundet, Alabanda muss fliehen und Diotima stirbt. Hyperion geht nach Deutschland, aber das Leben dort wird ihm unertr glich. Deshalb kehrt er nach Griechenland zur ck und lebt dort als Eremit. In seiner Einsamkeit findet er in der Sch nheit der Landschaft und Natur zu sich selbst und berwindet die Tragik, die in diesem Alleinsein liegt. Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) z hlt zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Lyrikern. Sein Werk l sst sich, in seiner Bedeutung innerhalb der deutschen Literatur um 1800, weder der Weimarer Klassik noch der Romantik zuordnen.

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including Hölderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.

Further solidifying H lderlin's place in history, this thorough collection of poetry ranges from the odes of his developmental period to the majestic hymns and strangely prophetic modern compositions created in his later years. Considered one of the founders of European romanticism, H lderlin had a mere 10 years to develop his distinctive style before falling prey to a debilitating mental illness, whose resultant works are the heartbreakingly sweet and melancholy pieces of the Sp teste Gedichte (Last Poems). Each poem is presented in both its original German and a new English translation, while an illuminating introduction explores H lderlin's significance in the realm of literature as well as the tumultuous world in which he lived.