Selected Poetry - including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Hoelderlin FriedrichPaperback / softback
Selected Poetry - including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Hoelderlin FriedrichPaperback / softback Friedrich H lderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's…
Specifikacia Selected Poetry - including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Hoelderlin FriedrichPaperback / softback
Selected Poetry - including Hoelderlin's Sophocles Hoelderlin FriedrichPaperback / softback
Friedrich H lderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised H lderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of H lderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for H lderlin's extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations.
This new volume presents a substantial selection from the work of a poet who, writing around 1800, addresses us ever more urgently two centuries later. Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translations of H lderlin. H lderlin translated all his writing life.
Through translation he reached a poetic language of his own, so that much of his best poetry reads