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Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich (1770–1843)

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List of works

  • Hölderlin, J.C.F. (1946–85) Sämtliche Werke (Große Stuttgarter Ausgabe), ed. F. Beissner and A. Beck, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 8 vols.

    (The standard critical edition of Hölderlin’s writings with extensive commentary and accompanying documentation – an indispensable reference source.)

  • Hölderlin, J.C.F. (1975–) Sämtliche Werke (Frankfurter Ausgabe), ed. D.E. Sattler, Frankfurt: Verlag Roter Stern.

    (A recent edition of Hölderlin’s writings which attempts to present the evolving stages of his poems with less editorial intervention in favour of the supposedly ‘final’ closed text.)

  • Hölderlin, J.C.F. (1798) Hyperion, trans. W.R. Trask in E.L. Santer (ed.) Friedrich Hölderlin. Hyperion and Selected Poems, New York: Continuum, 1994.

    (English translation of Hölderlin’s novel, adapted by D. Schwarz, and bilingual selection of mainly later poems translated by various hands.)

  • Hölderlin, J.C.F. (1799) Empedocles, trans. M. Hamburger in Hölderlin. Poems and Fragments, London: Anvil Poets Press, 3rd edn, 1994.

    (Excellent bilingual edition with representative selection of poems, including the second and third versions of Empedocles and the commentated translations of Pindar.)

  • Hölderlin, J.C.F. (1988) Friedrich Hölderlin. Essays and Letters on Theory, ed. and trans. T. Pfau, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

    (Contains the philosophical fragments and essays, the remarks on Greek tragedy and relevant excerpts from the correspondence.)

References and further reading

  • Hölderlin-Jahrbuch (1944–) Tübingen: Verlag Metzler.

    (Leading journal which continuously reviews the international secondary literature and publishes articles on all aspects of Hölderlin.)

  • Adorno, T.W. (1965) ‘Parataxis’, in Noten zur Literatur III, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 156–209; trans. S.W. Nicholsen in Notes to Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, vol. 2, 109–149, 1992.

    (Critical of attempts, like those of Heidegger, to minimize Hölderlin’s debt to the context of German Idealism.)

  • Dastur, F. (1992) Hölderlin, Tragédie et Modernité (Hölderlin: tragedy and modernity), Fougères: Encre Marine.

    (A concentrated and elegant introduction to Hölderlin’s thought, focusing on his understanding of the relation between the ancients and moderns.)

  • Dilthey, W. (1905) ‘Hölderlin’, in Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung, Leipzig: Teubner Verlag, 349–459; trans. J. Ross, in R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi (eds) Poetry and Experience, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 303–383, 1985.

    (The first important study of Hölderlin’s importance in the evolution of idealist philosophy, with an emphasis upon the earlier works.)

  • Heidegger, M. (1981) Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung, vol. 4 of Gesamtausgabe, Frankfurt: Klostermann; trans. W. McNeill and J. Davis as Hölderlin’s Hymn to the ‘Ister’, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.

    (Penetrating and influential readings of the poetry in terms of the author’s central philosophical preoccupations.)

  • Henrich, D. (1992) Der Grund im Bewusstsein, Untersuchungen zu Hölderlins Denken (1794–1795) (Foundations in consciousness. Studies in Hölderlin’s thought), Stuttgart: Klett Cotta.

    (Detailed philosophical analysis of Hölderlin’s role in developing a new theory of self-consciousness in relation to Fichte and Schelling.)

  • Henrich, D. (1997) The Course of Remembrance and other Essays on Hölderlin, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    (Contains a detailed study of one of Hölderlin’s late poems, and other essays on Hölderlin in the context of German idealist thought.)

  • Kurz, G. (1975) Mittelbarkeit und Vereinigung. Zum Verhältnis von Poesie, Reflexion und Revolution bei Hölderlin (Mediation and unification: the relationship of poetry, reflection and revolution in Hölderlin), Stuttgart: Metzler.

    (General study of Hölderlin in the historical context of early idealism from the perspective of the Frankfurt School of critical theory.)

  • Ryan, L. (1960) Hölderlin Lehre vom Wechsel der Töne (Hölderlin’s theory concerning the modulation of tones), Stuttgart: Metzler.

    (Detailed study of Hölderlin’s aesthetic reflections on poetic genre and register.)

  • Ryan, L. (1965) Hölderlins ‘Hyperion’: Exzentrische Bahn und Dichterberuf (Hölderlin’s ‘Hyperion’: eccentric path and poet’s vocation), Stuttgart: Metzler.

    (Important systematic reading of Hyperion which explores Hölderlin’s response to idealist thought and stresses the philosophical structure of the novel.)

  • Taminiaux, J. (1977) La nostalgie de la Grèce à l’aube de l’idéalisme allemand, Kant et les Grecs dans l’itinéraire de Schiller, de Hölderlin et de Hegel (The yearning for Greece and the origin of German idealism: Kant and the Greeks in the intellectual development of Schiller, Hölderlin and Hegel), The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

    (Differentiated study of the relationship between early idealist reception of Kant’s third Critique and the cult of classical antiquity in Hölderlin, Schiller and Hegel.)

  • Unger, R. (1975) Hölderlin’s Major Poetry. The Dialectics of Unity, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

    (General study stressing the tension between pantheistic intention and literary realization; good bibliographical references to the entire field.)

  • Warminski, A. (1987) Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    (Comparative analysis of Hölderlin in the light of contemporary deconstructive criticism.)

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