The Hderliniae (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811230636)

Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn's new collection The Hderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hderlin?-- the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of his life sequestered in a carpenter's tower in the south of Germany. Tarn speaks through Hderlin and Hderlin speaks through Tarn in an act of spiritual and lyric possession unlike anything else in contemporary poetry. The French Revolution--which Hderlin supported passionately until the Reign of Terror--illuminates our war-torn, ecologically precarious age, as the failures of our age recall past tragedies. Line after line carries Hderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own.

Author: Nathaniel Tarn
ISBN-10: 0811230635
ISBN-13: 9780811230636
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d