Selected Poems

Holderlin, Friedrich; Constantine, David J.

ISBN 10: 1852240644 / ISBN 13: 9781852240646

Edité par Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1990

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Signed. First printing. Publishers correction sticker on back on top of price. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Selected Poems
• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1852240644
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781852240646
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

Friedrich Hölderlin was one of Europe’s greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This edition, winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, has since been superseded by two enlarged editions, most recently Selected Poetry (2018).

Revue de presse

Hölderlin is a poet we can read with our own atrocious times in mind. He is a deeply religious poet whose fundamental tenet is absence and the threat of meaninglessness. He confronted hopelessness as few writers have, he was what Rilke called "exposed"; but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope, for the expression, in the body and breath of poems, of the best and most passionate aspirations. --David Constantine

Constantine goes for an "equivalence of spirit" in a more familiar idiom. This is at once a bold and humble undertaking, and has produced poetry of a remarkable luminosity and intensity, written in rhythms and cadences which recreate, both in their extremities of grief and their urgent hope, the immediacy of the original. --Karen Leeder, Oxford Poetry