Hymns to the Night (Revised) by Higgins, Dick (9780914232902)

Hymns to the Night (Revised) - Edition #3 - Revised

by Higgins, Dick , Novalis

Paperback - English

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise a deeply affecting poem that speaks across the centuries with unquestioned radiance.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Edition Number

Revised

ISBN

0914232908

EAN

9780914232902

Publisher

MCPHERSON & CO

Publication Date

01 Sep 1988

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.09

Dimensions (cm)

21.1 x 13.7 x 0.5

About Author

Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Like many of the other Fluxus artists, he studied composition with John Cage. He married artist Alison Knowles in 1960. He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts by artists including Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, Emmett Williams, Claes Oldenburg, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Bern Porter, Ray Johnson, Ken Friedman, and others. Higgins coined the word "intermedia" to describe his artistic activities, defining it in a 1965 essay by