Poems and Fragments English and German Edition,9780856463600

Poems and Fragments English and German Edition

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780856463600
ISBN10: 0856463604
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-01
Publisher(s): Anvil Press Poetry
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Summary

Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Holderlin's poetry for our age. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He is one of our leading poets and critics, as well as the foremost contemporary translator of German poetry. His Collected Poems 1941-1994 and several later books of poetry are published by Anvil, as is his Poems of Paul Celan, for which he was awarded the EC's first European Translation Prize in 1992. Anvil has also published his selections from the poetry of Goethe, Rilke and Peter Huchel and his critical study of modern poetry, The Truth of Poetry

Table of Contents

Preface, 2003 11(19)
Preface to the Third Edition 19
Introduction 13(42)
Bibliographical Note 55(4)
ODES AND EPIGRAMS (1797--1799)
Prayer for the Incurable
59(2)
Epigrams (1797)
61(2)
Good Advice
Advocatus Diaboli
The Excellent
Descriptive Poetry
False Popularity
To Diotima
63(2)
Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse . . .')
65(2)
Bonaparte
67(2)
Empedocles
69(2)
To the Fates
71(2)
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them . . .')
73(2)
To Her Genius
75(2)
Plea for Forgiveness
77(2)
Then and Now
79(2)
The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired. . .')
81(2)
Brevity
83(2)
Human Applause
85(2)
Home ('Content the boatman turns . . .')
87(2)
Good Faith
89(2)
Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend . . .')
91(2)
The Unpardonable
93(2)
To the Young Poets
95(2)
To the Germans ('Do not laugh . . .')
97(2)
The Sanctimonious Poets
99(2)
To the Sun-God
101(2)
Sunset
103(2)
Socrates and Alcibiades
105(2)
To Our Great Poets
107(2)
Epigrams (1799)
109(2)
Πρoσ Eαυτoν
Sophocles
The Angry Poet
The Jokers
The Root of All Evil
Palingenesis
111(4)
THE LATER ODES (1798--1803)
Vanini
115(2)
Man
117(4)
Hyperion's Song of Fate
121(2)
In my boyhood days . . .
123(4)
If to those warning ones . . .
127(2)
The Capricious
129(2)
The Spirit of the Age
131(2)
Evening Fantasy
133(2)
In the Morning
135(2)
The River Main
137(4)
My Possessions
141(4)
Palinode
145(2)
To a Princess of Dessau
147(4)
To Princess Augusta of Homburg
151(4)
Though every day I follow . . .
155(2)
Go down, then, lovely sun . . .
157(2)
And little knowledge . . .
159(2)
The German's Song
161(6)
Peace
167(6)
To the Germans ('Never laugh at . . .')
173(6)
Rousseau
179(4)
Heidelberg
183(3)
Heidelberg (Alcaic version)
186(3)
The Gods
189(2)
The Neckar
191(4)
Home ('Content the boatman turns . . .')
195(2)
Love
197(4)
The Course of Life ('More you also desired . . .')
201(2)
Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved . . .')
203(2)
The Farewell (second version)
205(4)
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown . . .')
209(2)
Return to the Homeland
211(2)
The Ancestral Portrait
213(4)
The Departed
217(2)
Exhortation (second version)
219(4)
Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter
223(4)
The Dioscuri
227(2)
Sung Beneath the Alps
229(4)
The Poet's Vocation
233(6)
Voice of the People (second version)
239(6)
The Blind Singer
245(4)
Chiron
249(4)
Tears
253(2)
To Hope
255(2)
Vulcan
257(4)
The Poet's Courage (first version)
261(4)
Timidness
265(2)
The Fettered River
267(2)
Ganymede
269(4)
HEXAMETERS AND ELEGIES (1800--1801)
The Archipelago
273(20)
Menon's Lament for Diotima
293(10)
The Traveller
303(8)
Stuttgart
311(8)
Bread and Wine
319(12)
Homecoming
331(126)
THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES
Second Version
Act One
343(44)
Act Two (Conclusion)
387(20)
Third Version
Act One
407(46)
Draft for the Concluding Chorus of Act One
453(1)
Plan for the Subsequent Acts
454(3)
THE HYMNS (1799--1805)
The Ages of Life
457(2)
The Nook at Hardt
459(2)
Half of Life
461(2)
As on a holiday . . .
463(6)
For Mother Earth
469(6)
At the Source of the Danube
475(8)
The Journey
483(8)
Germania
491(8)
The Rhine
499(14)
Conciliator, you that no longer believed in . . .
513(10)
Celebration of Peace
523(12)
The Only One (first version)
535(8)
The Only One (second version)
543(8)
Patmos
551(16)
Patmos (fragments of the later version)
567(10)
Remembrance
577(4)
The Ister
581(6)
Mnemosyne (third version)
587(4)
The Nymph
591(8)
FRAGMENTS OF OTHER HYMNS (1800--1805)
German Song
599(4)
As slowly birds migrate . . .
603(2)
As on to sea coasts . . .
605(2)
Home ('And no one knows . . .')
607(2)
For when the grape-vine's sap . . .
609(2)
On fallow foliage . . .
611(2)
What is the life of men . . .
613(2)
What is God? . . .
615(2)
To the Virgin Mary
617(12)
The Titans
629(6)
At one time I questioned the Muse . . .
635(4)
But when the heavenly . . .
639(8)
For formerly, Father Zeus . . .
647(4)
The Eagle
651(4)
You firmly built Alps . . .
655(4)
Whatever is Nearest (third version)
659(6)
And to feel with the lives . . .
665(2)
Colombo
667(10)
When there's a flaming . . .
677(2)
For from the abyss . . .
679(4)
Narcissi . . .
683(2)
. . . the Vatican . . .
685(4)
In Socrates' Time
689(2)
In the Forest
691(2)
Greece (first version)
693(4)
Greece (second version)
697(2)
Greece (third version)
699(6)
PINDAR FRAGMENTS AND COMMENTARY (1805)
Unfaithfulness of Wisdom
705(2)
Of Truth
707(2)
Of Repose
709(2)
Of the Dolphin
711(2)
The Supreme
713(2)
Old Age
715(2)
The Infinite
717(2)
The Sanctuaries
719(2)
The Life-Giving
721(6)
LAST POEMS (1807--1843)
Friendship, love . . .
727(2)
If from the distance . . .
729(4)
Fame
733(2)
On the Birth of a Child
735(2)
The world's agreeable things . . .
737(2)
To Zimmer ('About a man I say . . .')
739(2)
When down from heaven . . .
741(4)
To Zimmer ('The lines of life . . .')
745(2)
Conviction
747(2)
Spring ('When new enchantment . . .')
749(2)
The Merry Life
751(4)
The Walk
755(2)
The Churchyard
757(2)
Contentment
759(4)
Not any day . . .
763(2)
Autumn ('The legends that depart . . .')
765(2)
Summer ('The harvest field . . .')
767(2)
Spring ('New day descends . . .')
769(2)
Summer ('When then the blooms . . .')
771(2)
Winter ('When pale snow . . .')
773(2)
Winter ('The field is bare . . .')
775(2)
Summer ('Still you can see . . .')
777(2)
Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam . . .')
779(2)
Summer ('Brooks thread the valleys . . .')
781(2)
Summer ('The days go by . . .')
783(2)
Winter ('When past, unseen . . .')
785(2)
Spring ('When springtime from the depth . . .')
787(2)
In lovely blueness . . .
789(8)
Notes 797(12)
Index of German First Lines 809(4)
Index of German Titles 813(4)
Index of English First Lines 817(4)
Index of English Titles 821

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