Lyric Orientations - Holderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

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In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke...

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• Authors: Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrifte Eldridge
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780801456954
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5695-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought; Signale: Modern German Letters; Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought; Signale: Modern German Letters
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies