Poems and Fragments English and German Edition

Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Holderlin's poetry for our age. Book jacket.

Michael Hamburger was born in Berlin in 1924, and came to Britain as a child. He is one of our leading poets and critics, as well as the foremost contemporary translator of German poetry. His Collected Poems 1941-1994 and several later books of poetry are published by Anvil, as is his Poems of Paul Celan, for which he was awarded the EC's first European Translation Prize in 1992. Anvil has also published his selections from the poetry of Goethe, Rilke and Peter Huchel and his critical study of modern poetry, The Truth of Poetry

Preface, 2003

11

(19)

Preface to the Third Edition

19

Introduction

13

(42)

Bibliographical Note

55

(4)

ODES AND EPIGRAMS (1797--1799)

Prayer for the Incurable

59

(2)

Epigrams (1797)

61

(2)

Good Advice

Advocatus Diaboli

The Excellent

Descriptive Poetry

False Popularity

To Diotima

63

(2)

Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse . . .')

65

(2)

Bonaparte

67

(2)

Empedocles

69

(2)

To the Fates

71

(2)

Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them . . .')

73

(2)

To Her Genius

75

(2)

Plea for Forgiveness

77

(2)

Then and Now

79

(2)

The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired. . .')

81

(2)

Brevity

83

(2)

Human Applause

85

(2)

Home ('Content the boatman turns . . .')

87

(2)

Good Faith

89

(2)

Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend . . .')

91

(2)

The Unpardonable

93

(2)

To the Young Poets

95

(2)

To the Germans ('Do not laugh . . .')

97

(2)

The Sanctimonious Poets

99

(2)

To the Sun-God

101

(2)

Sunset

103

(2)

Socrates and Alcibiades

105

(2)

To Our Great Poets

107

(2)

Epigrams (1799)

109

(2)

Πρoσ Eαυτoν

Sophocles

The Angry Poet

The Jokers

The Root of All Evil

Palingenesis

111

(4)

THE LATER ODES (1798--1803)

Vanini

115

(2)

Man

117

(4)

Hyperion's Song of Fate

121

(2)

In my boyhood days . . .

123

(4)

If to those warning ones . . .

127

(2)

The Capricious

129

(2)

The Spirit of the Age

131

(2)

Evening Fantasy

133

(2)

In the Morning

135

(2)

The River Main

137

(4)

My Possessions

141

(4)

Palinode

145

(2)

To a Princess of Dessau

147

(4)

To Princess Augusta of Homburg

151

(4)

Though every day I follow . . .

155

(2)

Go down, then, lovely sun . . .

157

(2)

And little knowledge . . .

159

(2)

The German's Song

161

(6)

Peace

167

(6)

To the Germans ('Never laugh at . . .')

173

(6)

Rousseau

179

(4)

Heidelberg

183

(3)

Heidelberg (Alcaic version)

186

(3)

The Gods

189

(2)

The Neckar

191

(4)

Home ('Content the boatman turns . . .')

195

(2)

Love

197

(4)

The Course of Life ('More you also desired . . .')

201

(2)

Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved . . .')

203

(2)

The Farewell (second version)

205

(4)

Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown . . .')

209

(2)

Return to the Homeland

211

(2)

The Ancestral Portrait

213

(4)

The Departed

217

(2)

Exhortation (second version)

219

(4)

Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter

223

(4)

The Dioscuri

227

(2)

Sung Beneath the Alps

229

(4)

The Poet's Vocation

233

(6)

Voice of the People (second version)

239

(6)

The Blind Singer

245

(4)

Chiron

249

(4)

Tears

253

(2)

To Hope

255

(2)

Vulcan

257

(4)

The Poet's Courage (first version)

261

(4)

Timidness

265

(2)

The Fettered River

267

(2)

Ganymede

269

(4)

HEXAMETERS AND ELEGIES (1800--1801)

The Archipelago

273

(20)

Menon's Lament for Diotima

293

(10)

The Traveller

303

(8)

Stuttgart

311

(8)

Bread and Wine

319

(12)

Homecoming

331

(126)

THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES

Second Version

Act One

343

(44)

Act Two (Conclusion)

387

(20)

Third Version

Act One

407

(46)

Draft for the Concluding Chorus of Act One

453

(1)

Plan for the Subsequent Acts

454

(3)

THE HYMNS (1799--1805)

The Ages of Life

457

(2)

The Nook at Hardt

459

(2)

Half of Life

461

(2)

As on a holiday . . .

463

(6)

For Mother Earth

469

(6)

At the Source of the Danube

475

(8)

The Journey

483

(8)

Germania

491

(8)

The Rhine

499

(14)

Conciliator, you that no longer believed in . . .

513

(10)

Celebration of Peace

523

(12)

The Only One (first version)

535

(8)

The Only One (second version)

543

(8)

Patmos

551

(16)

Patmos (fragments of the later version)

567

(10)

Remembrance

577

(4)

The Ister

581

(6)

Mnemosyne (third version)

587

(4)

The Nymph

591

(8)

FRAGMENTS OF OTHER HYMNS (1800--1805)

German Song

599

(4)

As slowly birds migrate . . .

603

(2)

As on to sea coasts . . .

605

(2)

Home ('And no one knows . . .')

607

(2)

For when the grape-vine's sap . . .

609

(2)

On fallow foliage . . .

611

(2)

What is the life of men . . .

613

(2)

What is God? . . .

615

(2)

To the Virgin Mary

617

(12)

The Titans

629

(6)

At one time I questioned the Muse . . .

635

(4)

But when the heavenly . . .

639

(8)

For formerly, Father Zeus . . .

647

(4)

The Eagle

651

(4)

You firmly built Alps . . .

655

(4)

Whatever is Nearest (third version)

659

(6)

And to feel with the lives . . .

665

(2)

Colombo

667

(10)

When there's a flaming . . .

677

(2)

For from the abyss . . .

679

(4)

Narcissi . . .

683

(2)

. . . the Vatican . . .

685

(4)

In Socrates' Time

689

(2)

In the Forest

691

(2)

Greece (first version)

693

(4)

Greece (second version)

697

(2)

Greece (third version)

699

(6)

PINDAR FRAGMENTS AND COMMENTARY (1805)

Unfaithfulness of Wisdom

705

(2)

Of Truth

707

(2)

Of Repose

709

(2)

Of the Dolphin

711

(2)

The Supreme

713

(2)

Old Age

715

(2)

The Infinite

717

(2)

The Sanctuaries

719

(2)

The Life-Giving

721

(6)

LAST POEMS (1807--1843)

Friendship, love . . .

727

(2)

If from the distance . . .

729

(4)

Fame

733

(2)

On the Birth of a Child

735

(2)

The world's agreeable things . . .

737

(2)

To Zimmer ('About a man I say . . .')

739

(2)

When down from heaven . . .

741

(4)

To Zimmer ('The lines of life . . .')

745

(2)

Conviction

747

(2)

Spring ('When new enchantment . . .')

749

(2)

The Merry Life

751

(4)

The Walk

755

(2)

The Churchyard

757

(2)

Contentment

759

(4)

Not any day . . .

763

(2)

Autumn ('The legends that depart . . .')

765

(2)

Summer ('The harvest field . . .')

767

(2)

Spring ('New day descends . . .')

769

(2)

Summer ('When then the blooms . . .')

771

(2)

Winter ('When pale snow . . .')

773

(2)

Winter ('The field is bare . . .')

775

(2)

Summer ('Still you can see . . .')

777

(2)

Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam . . .')

779

(2)

Summer ('Brooks thread the valleys . . .')

781

(2)

Summer ('The days go by . . .')

783

(2)

Winter ('When past, unseen . . .')

785

(2)

Spring ('When springtime from the depth . . .')

787

(2)

In lovely blueness . . .

789

(8)

Notes

797

(12)

Index of German First Lines

809

(4)

Index of German Titles

813

(4)

Index of English First Lines

817

(4)

Index of English Titles

821

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