The twenty-eight poems by Friedrich Hoelderlin presented here were
most probably written during the last eleven years of his life from
1832 to 1843, after his bout of "madness". They present the
following characteristics: their prosody is in iambic pentameters
or hexameters, with feminine rhymes, their subject matter is
impersonal contemplation. The importance in these poems of rhythm,
and of sound more generally, brings to mind Hoelderlin's words, as
reported by Bettina Von Arnim: "The laws of the mind are
rhythmical. (...) As long as the poet is still looking for the
metrical accent and is not carried forward by the rhythm, his
poetry is without truth (...) what is poetry is the fact that the
mind can only express itself in rhythms, that its language is
rhythm". The goal of the translator has been to make this music
"heard" as much as possible.
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