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Junto a Píndaro, Dante o Shakespeare, Hölderlin es uno de los grandes cantores de la humanidad. La insondable belleza de sus poemas alcanza una trascendencia que rebasa los límites del movimiento romántico en que se gestaron. El presente volumen, extraordinariamente traducido por Eduardo Gil Bera, reúne el corpus esencial de la poesía de juventud y madurez del poeta de Suabia, desde las grandes odas hasta las elegías y los himnos, incluido "El Archipiélago", uno de los grandes hitos de la poesía universal. Como recuerda Félix de Azúa en su iluminador prólogo, en estos poemas, a pesar de la oscuridad circundante, aúlla un inmenso sí a la vida.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Filosofía. NeometrópolisNos trasladamos a otro tiempo (y en presente, el presente de sus autores, pleno siglo XIX), asistimos a una época en la que como revulsivo al racionalismo de la Ilustración y al Neoclasicismo imperante aparece una línea de pensamiento centrada en el sentir.La creación artística y la recepción de la obra de arte interpretadas desde la emoción, el entusiasmo, las pasiones incontenibles; respondiendo con justicia al movimiento estético denominado " Sturm und Drang " (tempestad y arrebato); germen primero del Romanticismo alemán. La supremacía, pues, del sentimiento frente a la razón, del liberalismo frente al espíritu racional e hipercrítico del despotismo ilustrado. Era el momento de imponer la creación a la mera imitación de la tradición clásica, era la oportunidad para despertar el gusto y el placer por lo inacabado o lo imperfecto, frente a lo cerrado y concluido. Un caldo de cultivo en el que desarrollar lo individu

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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.

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The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.

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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.

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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.

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