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A review by casparb
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin
I was doing my best to read this parallel text in my delightfully rusty german so I award myself points for trying , I'm not the strictest
beautiful & in a completely dire translation by hamburger which somehow makes a dynamic, exciting 19th-century poet sound like he's William morris writing in the 15th. Also maybe I'm missing something but it looks like ? somebody ? forgot to give us the original text on page 326 & there are parallel verses in English, but not the same english - possibly the literal trans.?
I really enjoyed this though & the caspar on the cover, he's one of those to live WIth
beautiful & in a completely dire translation by hamburger which somehow makes a dynamic, exciting 19th-century poet sound like he's William morris writing in the 15th. Also maybe I'm missing something but it looks like ? somebody ? forgot to give us the original text on page 326 & there are parallel verses in English, but not the same english - possibly the literal trans.?
I really enjoyed this though & the caspar on the cover, he's one of those to live WIth