Selected Last Poems

by Friedrich Hölderlin

The twenty-eight poems by Friedrich H lderlin presented here were most probably written during the last eleven years of his life from 1832 to 1843, after his bout of "madness". They present the following characteristics: their prosody is in iambic pentameters or hexameters, with feminine rhymes, their subject matter is impersonal contemplation. The importance in these poems of rhythm, and of sound more generally, brings to mind H lderlin's words,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0359928617
• ISBN13: 9780359928613
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"