Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

by Hannah Vandegrifte Eldridge

Book Overview

In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich H?lderlin (1770-1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). While H?lderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each believes in the power of poetic language to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801479320
• ISBN13: 9780801479328
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"