Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory

By: Friedrich H?lderlin

Book Overview

H?lderlin's essays and letters constitute essential documents for an understanding of the transitional period from neo-classical poetics to what can only be characterized as a unique and, in its frequently experimental structure, essentially modernist poetics.

This book contains virtually all of H?lderlin's theoretical writings translated for the first time. In spite of the great significance of H?lderlin's ideas for contemporary critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887065597
• ISBN13: 9780887065590
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"