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Essays and Letters
About the Author
One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence, and perception.
Book Overview
This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. Hölderlin's letters to friends and fellow writers such as Hegel, Schiller, and Goethe describe his development as a poet, while those written to his family speak with great passion of his beliefs and aspirations, as well as revealing money worries and, finally, the tragic unravelling of his sanity.
Thematic Focus
These works examine Hölderlin's great preoccupations - the unity of existence, the relationship between art and nature, and, above all, the spirit of the writer.
