Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to Jaccottet

by Charlie Louth

Crossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of poetry and trans-lation are closely related. This is especially true in the work of H lderlin, in whose poems the kinship is coupled with a way of reading the world and an attentiveness to transitions of all kinds: what can come over to us from the past, and what will pass on from us to posterity? What are the consequences for poetry if the present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839541547
• ISBN13: 9781839541544
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Legenda
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"