Selected Poems
by Holderlin, FriedrichFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-01
Publisher(s): Dufour Editions
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Summary
The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translations. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. Constantine's translations make him accessible, even informal. This is a st
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| 'When I was a boy' | p. 13 |
| To Diotima | p. 14 |
| Diotima | p. 15 |
| Plea for Forgiveness | p. 16 |
| 'Once there were gods' | p. 17 |
| Parting | p. 18 |
| 'Another day' | p. 19 |
| 'The sun goes down' | p. 20 |
| To the Sun God | p. 21 |
| To the Fates | p. 22 |
| Fate. Hyperion's Song | p. 23 |
| That which is mine | p. 24 |
| The Gods | p. 26 |
| Sung under the Alps | p. 27 |
| The Archipelago | p. 28 |
| Bread and Wine | p. 36 |
| Homecoming | p. 41 |
| The Journey | p. 44 |
| The Rhine | p. 48 |
| Patmos | p. 54 |
| Remembrance | p. 60 |
| The Ister | p. 62 |
| Mnemosyne | p. 64 |
| Tears | p. 66 |
| Ganymede | p. 67 |
| Chiron | p. 68 |
| To Hope | p. 70 |
| Ages of Life | p. 71 |
| Half of Life | p. 72 |
| 'As birds slowly pass over' | p. 73 |
| 'As upon seacoasts' | p. 74 |
| Home | p. 75 |
| 'For when the juice of the vine' | p. 76 |
| 'On pale leaves' | p. 77 |
| 'When over the vineyard' | p. 78 |
| The Eagle | p. 79 |
| 'Where we began' | p. 80 |
| 'Severed and at a distance now' | p. 81 |
| 'When out of heaven' | p. 83 |
| Spring ('When new joy quickens') | p. 84 |
| A Happy Life | p. 85 |
| The Walk | p. 87 |
| 'Not all days' | p. 88 |
| Spring ('How blessed to see again') | p. 89 |
| Autumn | p. 90 |
| Spring ('The new day comes down') | p. 91 |
| View | p. 91 |
| Concerning the Dolphin | p. 92 |
| From Sophocles' Ajax | p. 93 |
| From Sophocles' Antigone | p. 96 |
| From Sophocles' Oedipus the King | p. 99 |
| 'In a lovely blue' | p. 103 |
| Notes | p. 105 |
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