Selected Poetry: (including Hölderlin's Sophocles), 3rd Edition
Selected Poetry: (including Hölderlin's Sophocles), 3rd Edition by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by David Constantine
English | February 28, 2019 | ISBN: 1780374011 | EPUB/PDF | 320 pages | 1.1/2.4 MB
English | February 28, 2019 | ISBN: 1780374011 | EPUB/PDF | 320 pages | 1.1/2.4 MB
Holderlin 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 is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised Hlderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hlderlin's Sophocles (2001).
Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translations of Holderlin. 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. Holderlin translated all his writing life, in a radical and idiosyncratic way, cleaving close to the Greek yet at the same time striving to interpret these ancient, foreign and - as he thought - sacred originals, to bring them into the modern day and age.