{"title":"Books by Friedrich Hölderlin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780140424164","title":"Selected Poems and Fragments","description":"Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of Night’, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an unprecedented style, which anticipates the Symbolists and Surrealists. Together the works collected here show Hölderlin’s use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224104218997,"sku":"9780140424164","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140424164_eb894f1a-8136-4998-a53e-b2c29b880a18.jpg?v=1786011387"},{"product_id":"9780140447088","title":"Essays and Letters","description":"One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. Hölderlin's letters to friends and fellow writers such as Hegel, Schiller and Goethe describe his development as a poet, while those written to his family speak with great passion of his beliefs and aspirations, as well as revealing money worries and, finally, the tragic unravelling of his sanity. These works examine Hölderlin's great preoccupations - the unity of existence, the relationship between art and nature and, above all, the spirit of the writer.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224352862581,"sku":"9780140447088","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140447088_56ed98bd-6909-456d-9c6f-3016b9b55184.jpg?v=1786011853"},{"product_id":"9781780374017","title":"Selected Poetry","description":"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 is a new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised Hölderlin Selected Poems (1990\/1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hölderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for Hölderlin's extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translations of Hölderlin. 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. Hölderlin translated all his writing life. Through translation he reached a poetic language of his own, so that much of his best poetry reads like a translation from elsewhere. He was intensely occupied with Sophocles in the winter of 1803-04. His versions of Oedipus Rex and Antigone (he worked at but never finished Oedipus at Colonus and Ajax) came out in the spring of 1804 and were taken, by the learned, as conclusive proof of his insanity. He was by then very near to mental collapse, but no one now would dismiss his work for that. He translated 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, and so bring them home into the modern day and age. Constantine has translated Hölderlin's translations, carrying as much of their strangeness as possible into his English. The plays themselves need no introduction or apology. These double translations, links in literature from land to land and from age to age, demonstrate the vitality of ancient and modern poetic tradition. Carl Orff used Hölderlin's texts for his operas Antigonae (1949) and Oedipus der Tyrann (1959), with the producers of recent DVDs of Orff's operas later choosing to use Constantine's texts for their English subtitles.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303130149237,"sku":"9781780374017","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780374017_117636be-e339-4980-9a15-c3e2950780a2.jpg?v=1786024991"},{"product_id":"9783754400159","title":"André Butzer. Friedrich Hölderlin. Die Jahreszeiten \/ The Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Hölderlin is probably André Butzer’s favorite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his “favorite people ever.” His identification with the poet goes even further, as Hölderlin’s day of death is Butzer’s own birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Butzer moved to Los Angeles, the land of his youthful dreams, for the first time in 2001, he got homesick. The home he longed for lay neither in the old world nor in the new. In California, he read Hölderlin’s Hyperion and was shaken: “As I read, I felt that I understood every word. I thought these words came from me.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButzer recognizes himself in Hölderlin’s fateful protagonist and invents the figure of the homeless Wanderer. His home is in painting, and so he sets off down “Hyperion Ave”—the street on which The Walt Disney Studio opened in 1926. According to Butzer, “Hölderlin, just like Disney, expresses longings. And these can be put to use.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Hölderlin, poetry is the place that makes human existence on earth possible. For Butzer, it is painting. In poetry, he finds succor to settle and reconcile the extreme contradictions of the world through his painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this artist’s book, Butzer has compiled 47 poems written by Hölderlin between 1793 and 1843 on the four seasons. These poems link the cycle of the seasons with man’s path of life like a parable: the autumnal fulfillment of summer’s maturation, the blossoming of life in spring and the experienced barrenness of winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems may sound simple, but in them Hölderlin gives shape to human endurance in seemingly hopeless conditions: hope, doubt, wonder, longing, love. Matters of the heart, simple, lucid and vulnerable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust take Hölderlin’s beloved Diotima. In Untitled (Diotima), she gazes towards a place hidden from our view. Is she looking into her innermost self or into the inaccessible distance? Seeing her see, we recognize ourselves in her gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo accompany the poems, Butzer has created 40 watercolors. His iconic characters—the Wanderer, the Woman, the Peace-Siemens—cyclically fade and reappear in the delicate colors. Each figure, each thing, each stroke, each patch and each hue of color carries itself. Yet time and again, a fragile harmony emerges from their contrary bonding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book does neither adhere to the chronological everyday time nor the ‘factual’ succession of the seasons. Instead, Butzer has placed the poems and watercolors intuitively, forming open constellations. This corresponds to Hölderlin’s wackily fantastic dating, in which a poem from 1843, for instance, can be attributed to 1758, 1648 or 1940. In the persistent poetic time, the past and the future are one complete whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn unison words and images ponder man’s dwelling upon this earth, in the humblest and most poetic way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420245963125,"sku":"9783754400159","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783754400159_835164bb-82ee-40f5-9bf5-2bbb5d11f3ce.jpg?v=1786031889"},{"product_id":"9798855804171","title":"The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Holderlin","description":"The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.   Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant European poets and thinkers. His poems fascinate and compel; his role in the development of German Idealism is well-known; and his writings continue to shape philosophical reflections on subjectivity and the place of poetry in the world. Hölderlin's correspondence is indispensable for anyone wanting to come to terms with his work, yet until now only selections have been available in English. This new and complete edition, which also includes all the surviving letters to Hölderlin, ranges from early letters written while he was still at school, via letters responding to the French Revolution and its consequences in Germany, relaying to Hegel his arguments with Fichte's lectures, or setting out his poetic thinking, to the final letters written in his madness to his mother. The chief source of what we know of Hölderlin’s biography, this correspondence vitally illuminates his poetry and thought at every point.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420310319477,"sku":"9798855804171","price":109.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798855804171.jpg?v=1786032763"},{"product_id":"hyperion-oder-der-eremit-in-griechenland-grossdruck","title":"Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland (Großdruck)","description":"Friedrich Hölderlin: Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-Schrift  Großformat, 210 x 297 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2019 Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor Borken  Entstanden 1796\/1798. Erstdruck: Tübingen (Cotta) 1797\/99.  Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich Hölderlin: Sämtliche Werke. Kleine Stuttgarter Ausgabe, 6 Bände, Band 3, Herausgegeben von Friedrich Beissner, Stuttgart: Cotta, 1958.  Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Franz Josef Kobell, Felsenlandschaft mit Einsiedler, 1776.  Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt.  Henricus Edition Deutsche Klassik UG (haftungsbeschränkt)","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492437893493,"sku":"9783847833062","price":15.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783847833062.jpg?v=1786529281"},{"product_id":"hymns-and-fragments","title":"Hymns and Fragments","description":"The acclaimed translation of Hölderlin’s radical and influential late poetry—now in a revised new editionFriedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) was one of Europe’s first great modern poets, and Richard Sieburth’s acclaimed translation of the German Romantic’s late work has long been the standard. In this volume, Sieburth presents a revised version of the celebrated Hymns and Fragments, which gathers almost all the poet’s work in free rhythms from the years between 1801 and 1806, the period just before he was confined to a mental hospital. This translation captures the radical idiom and vision that continue to make Hölderlin a contemporary. Sieburth’s critical introduction discusses the poet’s career, assesses his role as the link between classicism and romanticism, and explores his importance to modern poetics and philosophy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57524714963317,"sku":"9780691299297","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691299297.jpg?v=1792424436"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-friedrich-holderlin.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}