Elegien

by Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich HšlderlinÕ Elegies are composed, like the elegies of ancient Greece, in elegiac couplets, where an hexa - meter is followed by a pentameter. _ey were often revised by the poet. _e versions presented here are the la_ ones, more rarely published and translated. _eir main themes are oneÕs return, to the homeland (_e Wanderer, Homecoming, Stuttgart), to lo_ love (MenonÕs Lament for Diotima), to the spirit of Greece prior to the disenchantment of the world (Bread and Wine), and the welcome of Nature (_e Walk in the Country). In the hope of giving an idea of the music they produce, the present English translations _rive to reproduce their metrics.

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

Reviews

[Cristiana Ferreira]

"...O homem apenas algum tempo suporta a plenitude divina.
Depois toda a nossa vida é sonhar com eles. Mas os erros,
Tal como o sono, ajudam, e a necessidade e a noite fortalecem,"

[Guilherme Vilhena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Menons Klagen um Diothima