Hoederlin's status as one of the greatest European poets has become increasingly apparent - yet he is commonly considered a difficult poet. A prime aim of this book is to make Hoelderlin more accessible to the English-speaking reader. This discussion of Hoelderlin's work includes close readings of many individual poems, with English translations of all quotations. The author, who is also concerned to locate Hoelderlin in his times, recounts in a chronological framework the main line of the poet's life, his dealings with his important contemporaries, his love for Susette Gontard, and the long years of loneliness and frustration.
- ISBN10 0198151691
- ISBN13 9780198151692
- Publish Date 29 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 432
- Language English