The Hölderliniae : a poem / Nathaniel Tarn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarn, Nathaniel, author.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1496.

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1496

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843--Poetry.

Hölderlin, Friedrich.

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Coporation, 2021.

Summary:

"The thirty hymns of The Hölderliniae are inspired by the intricacies and transcendent humanity of Beethoven's last quartets. Nathaniel Tarn's new book opens with a biographical note on the "Poet of Poets," Friedrich Hölderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of Hölderlin's birth and death. Via affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through Hölderlin, and Hölderlin speaks through Tarn. The French Revolution-which Hölderlin supported passionately until the Reign of Terror-illuminates our war-torn, ecologically precarious age, as the failures of our age recall those past tragedies. Line after line carries Hölderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A New Directions Paperbook original" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780811230636

0811230635

OCLC:

1198086446