Hoelderlin

Zusatztext 'his book is immensely welcome ... Dr Constantine's book is admirably suited to fulfilling his aim of making more people think H worth reading and accessible.'Robin Harrison! King's College! London! Modern Language Review Vol 85 Klappentext This book! the first new critical biography of Holderlin to appear in over 50 years! makes a notoriously "difficult" major poet accessible to English-speaking readers! providing a comprehensive discussion of his life and work! and placing him firmly in the context of his times. Zusammenfassung This new critical biography of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is the first to appear for more than fifty years. In this time his status as one of the greatest European poets has become increasingly apparent - yet he is commonly considered a 'difficult' poet. A prime aim of this book is to make Hölderlin more accessible to the English-speaking reader. This comprehensive discussion of Hölderlin's work includes close readings of many individual poems, with English translations of all quotations. The author, who is also concerned to locate Hölderlin constantly in his times, recounts in a chronological framework the main line of the poet's life, his dealings with his important contemporaries, his love for Susette Gontard, and the long years of loneliness and frustration.Hölderlin is an archetypal figure, exciting fear and pity, a poet whose religion was founded on the conviction that his gods were absent, and whose modernity lies in his experience of absence.

Product details

• Authors: David Constantine, David J. Constantine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1988
• EAN: 9780198157885
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815788-5
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, german, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800