Poems & Fragments

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	p. 11
Preface to the Third Edition	p. 19
Introduction	p. 13
Bibliographical Note	p. 55
Odes and Epigrams (1797-1799)
Prayer for the Incurable	p. 59
Epigrams (1797)	p. 61
Good Advice
Advocatus Diaboli
The Excellent
Descriptive Poetry
False Popularity
To Diotima	p. 63
Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse ...')	p. 65
Bonaparte	p. 67
Empedocles	p. 69
To the Fates	p. 71
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them ...')	p. 73
To Her Genius	p. 75
Plea for Forgiveness	p. 77
Then and Now	p. 79
The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired ...')	p. 81
Brevity	p. 83
Human Applause	p. 85
Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	p. 87
Good Faith	p. 89
Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend ...')	p. 91
The Unpardonable	p. 93
To the Young Poets	p. 95
To the Germans ('Do not laugh ...')	p. 97
The Sanctimonious Poets	p. 99
To the Sun-God	p. 101
Sunset	p. 103
Socrates and Alcibiades	p. 105
To Our Great Poets	p. 107
Epigrams (1799)	p. 109
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Sophocles
The Angry Poet
The Jokers
The Root of All Evil
Palingenesis	p. 111
The Later Odes (1798-1803)
Vanini	p. 115
Man	p. 117
Hyperion's Song of Fate	p. 121
In my boyhood days ...	p. 123
If to those warning ones ...	p. 127
The Capricious	p. 129
The Spirit of the Age	p. 131
Evening Fantasy	p. 133
In the Morning	p. 135
The River Main	p. 137
My Possessions	p. 141
Palinode	p. 145
To a Princess of Dessau	p. 147
To Princess Augusta of Homburg	p. 151
Though every day I follow ...	p. 155
Go down, then, lovely sun ...	p. 157
And little knowledge ...	p. 159
The German's Song	p. 161
Peace	p. 167
To the Germans ('Never laugh at ...')	p. 173
Rousseau	p. 179
Heidelberg	p. 183
Heidelberg (Alcaic version)	p. 186
The Gods	p. 189
The Neckar	p. 191
Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	p. 195
Love	p. 197
The Course of Life ('More you also desired ...')	p. 201
Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved ...')	p. 203
The Farewell (second version)	p. 205
Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown ...')	p. 209
Return to the Homeland	p. 211
The Ancestral Portrait	p. 213
The Departed	p. 217
Exhortation (second version)	p. 219
Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter	p. 223
The Dioscuri	p. 227
Sung Beneath the Alps	p. 229
The Poet's Vocation	p. 233
Voice of the People (second version)	p. 239
The Blind Singer	p. 245
Chiron	p. 249
Tears	p. 253
To Hope	p. 255
Vulcan	p. 257
The Poet's Courage (first version)	p. 261
Timidness	p. 265
The Fettered River	p. 267
Ganymede	p. 269
Hexameters and Elegies (1800-1801)
The Archipelago	p. 273
Menon's Lament for Diotima	p. 293
The Traveller	p. 303
Stuttgart	p. 311
Bread and Wine	p. 319
Homecoming	p. 331
The Death of Empedocles
Second Version
Act One	p. 343
Act Two (Conclusion)	p. 387
Third Version
Act One	p. 407
Draft for the Concluding Chorus of Act One	p. 453
Plan for the Subsequent Acts	p. 454
The Hymns (1799-1805)
The Ages of Life	p. 457
The Nook at Hardt	p. 459
Half of Life	p. 461
As on a holiday ...	p. 463
For Mother Earth	p. 469
At the Source of the Danube	p. 475
The Journey	p. 483
Germania	p. 491
The Rhine	p. 499
Conciliator, you that no longer believed in ...	p. 513
Celebration of Peace	p. 523
The Only One (first version)	p. 535
The Only One (second version)	p. 543
Patmos	p. 551
Patmos (fragments of the later version)	p. 567
Remembrance	p. 577
The Ister	p. 581
Mnemosyne (third version)	p. 587
The Nymph	p. 591
Fragments of Other Hymns (1800-1805)
German Song	p. 599
As slowly birds migrate ...	p. 603
As on to sea coasts ...	p. 605
Home ('And no one knows...')	p. 607
For when the grape-vine's sap...	p. 609
On fallow foliage...	p. 611
What is the life of men...	p. 613
What is God?...	p. 615
To the Virgin Mary	p. 617
The Titans	p. 629
At one time I questioned the Muse...	p. 635
But when the heavenly...	p. 639
For formerly, Father Zeus...	p. 647
The Eagle	p. 651
You firmly built Alps...	p. 655
Whatever is Nearest (third version)	p. 659
And to feel with the lives...	p. 665
Colombo	p. 667
When there's a flaming...	p. 677
For from the abyss...	p. 679
Narcissi...	p. 683
...the Vatican...	p. 685
In Socrates' Time	p. 689
In the Forest	p. 691
Greece (first version)	p. 693
Greece (second version)	p. 697
Greece (third version)	p. 699
Pindar Fragments and Commentary (1805)
Unfaithfulness of Wisdom	p. 705
Of Truth	p. 707
Of Repose	p. 709
Of the Dolphin	p. 711
The Supreme	p. 713
Old Age	p. 715
The Infinite	p. 717
The Sanctuaries	p. 719
The Life-Giving	p. 721
Last Poems (1807-1843)
Friendship, love...	p. 727
If from the distance...	p. 729
Fame	p. 733
On the Birth of a Child	p. 735
The world's agreeable things...	p. 737
To Zimmer ('About a man I say...')	p. 739
When down from heaven...	p. 741
To Zimmer ('The lines of life...')	p. 745
Conviction	p. 747
Spring ('When new enchantment...')	p. 749
The Merry Life	p. 751
The Walk	p. 755
The Churchyard	p. 757
Contentment	p. 759
Not any day...	p. 763
Autumn ('The legends that depart...')	p. 765
Summer ('The harvest field...')	p. 767
Spring ('New day descends...')	p. 769
Summer ('When then the blooms...')	p. 771
Winter ('When pale snow...')	p. 773
Winter ('The field is bare...')	p. 775
Summer ('Still you can see...')	p. 777
Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam...')	p. 779
Summer ('Brooks thread the valleys...')	p. 781
Summer ('The days go by...')	p. 783
Winter ('When past, unseen...')	p. 785
Spring ('When springtime from the depth...')	p. 787
In lovely blueness...	p. 789
Notes	p. 797
Index of German First Lines	p. 809
Index of German Titles	p. 813
Index of English First Lines	p. 817
Index of English Titles	p. 821
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