The Hölderliniae

by Nathaniel Tarn

Book Overview

The thirty hymns of The H?lderliniae are inspired by the intricacies and transcendent humanity of Beethoven's last quartets. Nathaniel Tarn's new book opens with a biographical note on the "Poet of Poets," Friedrich H?lderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of H?lderlin's birth and death. Through affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through H?lderlin, and H?lderlin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811230635
• ISBN13: 9780811230636
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"