The Hölderliniae : a poem /
"The thirty hymns of The Hölderliniae 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 Hölderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed lo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Coporation,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
NDP1496 |
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| Summary: | "The thirty hymns of The Hölderliniae 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 Hölderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of Hölderlin's birth and death. Via affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through Hölderlin, and Hölderlin speaks through Tarn. The French Revolution-which Hölderlin 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 Hölderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own"-- |
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| Item Description: | "A New Directions Paperbook original" -- title page. |
| Physical Description: | 85 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780811230636 0811230635 |