The Hölderliniae
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The thirty hymns of The H?lderliniae 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 H?lderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of H?lderlin's birth and death. Through affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through H?lderlin, and H?lderlin speaks through Tarn. The French Revolution--which H?lderlin 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 H?lderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811230635
ISBN13:9780811230636
Release Date:April 2021
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"
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