The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin

Hölderlin, Friedrich/ Louth, Charlie (EDT)/ Louth, Charlie (INT)

State University of New York Press（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 750 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798855804171
• DDC分類 831.6

Full Description

The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant European poets and thinkers. His poems fascinate and compel; his role in the development of German Idealism is well-known; and his writings continue to shape philosophical reflections on subjectivity and the place of poetry in the world. Hölderlin's correspondence is indispensable for anyone wanting to come to terms with his work, yet until now only selections have been available in English. This new and complete edition, which also includes all the surviving letters to Hölderlin, ranges from early letters written while he was still at school, via letters responding to the French Revolution and its consequences in Germany, relaying to Hegel his arguments with Fichte's lectures, or setting out his poetic thinking, to the final letters written in his madness to his mother. The chief source of what we know of Hölderlin's biography, this correspondence vitally illuminates his poetry and thought at every point.

Contents

Chronology

Introduction

Letters

Denkendorf and Maulbronn, 1785-1788
Tübingen, 1788-1793
Waltershausen, Jena, Nürtingen, 1793-1795
Frankfurt, 1796-1798
Homburg, 1798-1800
Stuttgart, Hauptwil, Nürtingen, Bordeaux, Homburg, 1800-1806
Tübingen, 1806-1843

List of Letters

List of Correspondents with Biographical Notes

Notes
Selected Reading
Index