Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine
PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018 Amali Rodrigo Matt Merritt

Matt Merritt

A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity

a world that lies at the heart of Estonian culture

The author is a realist and a formalist

If the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish

Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine <br><b>PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018</b> Amali Rodrigo Matt MerrittFriedrich Hlderlin was one of Europes greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantines widely praised Hlderlin Selected Poems (1990 1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hlderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for Hlderlin's extraordinary German