Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Selected Poems and Fragments, Paperback / softback Book

Selected Poems and Fragments Paperback / softback

Edited by Jeremy Adler

Paperback / softback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

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

Information

Save 12%

£14.99

£13.19

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information