Selected Poems and Fragments

Dual-Language Edition

By: Friedrich Hölderlin

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Paperback | 1 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Michael Hamburger's distinguished translation of a selection of poems by German poet Friedrich Holderlin

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.

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Bibliographical note
Good Advice	p. 3
Descriptive Poetry	p. 3
To Diotima	p. 3
Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse ...')	p. 3
Bonaparte	p. 5
Empedocles	p. 5
To the Fates	p. 7
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them ...')	p. 7
To Her Genius	p. 9
Plea for Forgiveness	p. 9
Then and Now	p. 9
The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired ...')	p. 11
Brevity	p. 11
Human Applause	p. 11
Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	p. 13
Good Faith	p. 13
Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend ...')	p. 13
The Unpardonable	p. 15
To the Young Poets	p. 15
To the Germans ('Do not laugh ...')	p. 15
The Sanctimonious Poets	p. 17
Sunset	p. 17
To Our Great Poets	p. 17
Socrates and Alcibiades	p. 19
Sophocles	p. 19
The Angry Poet	p. 19
The Root of All Evil	p. 19
Man	p. 23
Hyperion's Song of Fate	p. 25
In my boyhood days ...	p. 27
The Spirit of the Age	p. 29
Evening Fantasy	p. 31
In the Morning	p. 33
The River Main	p. 35
My Possessions	p. 37
To Princess Augusta of Homburg	p. 41
Go down, then, lovely sun ...	p. 43
To the Germans ('Never laugh at ...')	p. 45
Rousseau	p. 49
Heidelberg (Alcaic version)	p. 51
The Neckar	p. 53
Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	p. 55
Love	p. 57
The Course of Life ('More you also desired ...')	p. 59
Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved ...')	p. 61
The Farewell (second version)	p. 63
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown ...')	p. 65
Return to the Homeland	p. 67
The Ancestral Portrait	p. 69
The Departed	p. 71
Exhortation (second version)	p. 73
Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter	p. 75
Sung beneath the Alps	p. 77
The Poet's Vocation	p. 79
Voice of the People (second version)	p. 83
The Blind Singer	p. 87
Chiron	p. 91
Tears	p. 95
To Hope	p. 97
Vulcan	p. 97
The Poet's Courage (first version)	p. 99
Timidness	p. 101
The Fettered River	p. 103
Ganymede	p. 105
The Archipelago	p. 111
Menon's Lament for Diotima	p. 127
The Traveller	p. 137
Stuttgart	p. 143
Bread and Wine	p. 151
Homecoming	p. 159
The Ages of Life	p. 171
Half of Life	p. 171
The Nook at Hardt	p. 173
As on a holiday ...	p. 175
At the Source of the Danube	p. 177
The Journey	p. 183
Germania	p. 189
The Rhine	p. 197
Celebration of Peace	p. 209
The Only One (first version)	p. 219
The Only One (second version)	p. 225
Patmos	p. 231
Patmos (fragments of the later version)	p. 243
Remembrance	p. 251
The Ister	p. 253
Mnemosyne (third version)	p. 259
German Song	p. 265
Home ('And no one knows ...')	p. 267
For when the grape-vine's sap ...	p. 269
On fallow foliage ...	p. 269
What is the life of men ...	p. 271
What is God? ...	p. 271
To the Virgin Mary	p. 273
The Titans	p. 283
At one time I questioned the Muse ...	p. 287
But when the heavenly ...	p. 289
The Eagle	p. 295
You firmly built alps ...	p. 299
Whatever is Nearest (third version)	p. 301
Colombo	p. 305
When there's a flaming ...	p. 313
For from the abyss ...	p. 313
Narcissi ...	p. 315
In Socrates' Time	p. 317
Greece (third version)	p. 317
If from the distance ...	p. 325
On the Birth of a Child	p. 327
The world's agreeable things ...	p. 329
To Zimmer ('The lines of life ...')	p. 329
Conviction	p. 329
The Merry Life	p. 329
The Walk	p. 333
Spring ('New day descends ...')	p. 333
Summer ('When then the blooms ...')	p. 335
Summer ('Still you can see ...')	p. 335
Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam ...')	p. 337
Winter ('When past, unseen ...')	p. 337
Spring ('When springtime from the depth ...')	p. 339
Index of German first lines	p. 341
Index of English first lines	p. 345
Index of German titles	p. 349
Index of English titles	p. 351
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