Selected poetry / Friedrich Hölderlin ; translated by David Constantine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843, author.

Contributor:

Constantine, David, 1944- translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843--Translations into English.

Hölderlin, Friedrich.

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

412 pages ; portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2018.

Language Note:

Translated from German.

Summary:

Holderlin 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 Hlderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hlderlin's Sophocles (2001). Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translations of Holderlin. 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. Holderlin translated all his writing life, 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, to bring them into the modern day and age.

Contents:

Greece p. 19

The oak trees p. 21

To Diotima ('Come and look at the happiness...') p. 22

Diotima ('Heavenly Muse of Delight...') p. 23

'The peoples were silent...' p. 24

Empedocles p. 25

To the Fates p. 26

To her good angel p. 27

Plea for forgiveness p. 28

To the Sun God p. 29

Hyperion's Song of Fate p. 30

'When I was a boy...' p. 31

Achilles p. 33

'Once there were gods...' p. 34

'If I heeded them warning me now...' p. 35

Parting p. 36

The Zeitgeist p. 37

Evening fantasy p. 38

Morning p. 39

The Main p. 40

That which is mine p. 42

'Another day...' p. 44

'The sun goes down...' p. 45

Peace p. 46

Heidelberg p. 48

The Gods p. 50

The Neckar p. 51

Home p. 53

Love p. 54

Course of life p. 55

Parting, second version p. 56

Diotima ('You are silent, you suffer it...') p. 58

Return to the homeland p. 59

Encouragement, second version p. 60

Sung under the Alps p. 61

The calling of poetry p. 62

Voice of the people, second version p. 65

The blind singer p. 68

Poetic courage, first version p. 70

Poetic courage, second version p. 71

The fettered river p. 72

Chiron p. 73

Tears p. 75

To Hope p. 76

Vulcan p. 77

Timidity p. 78

Ganymede p. 79

Half of life p. 80

Ages of life p. 81

Hahrdt Nook p. 82

Menon's lament for Diotima p. 83

A walk into the country p. 88

Stuttgart p. 90

Bread and Wine p. 94

Homecoming p. 99

The Archipelago p. 103

Those sleeping now p. 112

As when on a holiday... p. 113

To Mother Earth p. 116

At the source of the Danube p. 119

Celebration of Peace, first version p. 123

Celebration of Peace, final version p. 126

The journey p. 131

The Rhine p. 135

Germania p. 142

The only one, first version p. 146

The only one, ll. 50-97 of the second version p. 149

The only one, third version p. 151

Patmos p. 154

Patmos, fragments of a later version p. 161

Patmos, ll. 136-195 of work on a final version p. 165

Remembrance p. 167

The Ister p. 169

Mnemosyne, second version p. 172

Mnemosyne, third version p. 174

'As birds slowly pass over...' p. 176

'As upon seacoasts...' p. 177

Home p. 178

'For when the juice of the vine...' p. 179

'On pale leaves...' p. 180

'When over the vineyard...' p. 181

To the Madonna p. 182

The Titans p. 188

'Once I asked the Muse...' p. 191

'But when the heavenly powers...' p. 193

'But formerly, Father Zeus...' p. 196

The eagle p. 197

Nearest and best, third version p. 199

Tinian p. 201

'And to feel the lives...' p. 203

'Where we began... p. 204

...the Vatican... p. 206

Greece, first version p. 208

Greece, ll. 13-21 of the second version p. 209

Greece, third version p. 210

'Severed and at a distance now...' p. 212

'I have enjoyed...' p. 214

'When out of heaven...' p. 215

Spring ('When new joy quickens...') p. 216

A happy life p. 217

The walk p. 219

The churchyard p. 220

Not all days... p. 221

Spring ('How blessed to see again...') p. 222

Autumn ('The stories that are leaving earth...') p. 223

Spring ('The new day comes...') p. 224

View ('To us with images...') p. 225

'In a lovely blue...' p. 226.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1780374011

9781780374017

OCLC:

1035505042

Publisher Number:

99981511347