Book Description
The best known poems of 18th-century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, translated into clear, straight-forward English by San Francisco writer James Mitchell.
About the author
Friedrich Hölderlin was born in Germany in 1770. He studied in Tübingen from 1788 to 1793, where he became friends with fellow-students Hegel and Schelling. Thereafter he worked as a tutor in private homes in Germany, Switzerland, and France, writing some of the most fascinating lyric poetry in the history of German literature. After falling victim to schizophrenia, he was given to the custody of a carpenter's family in Tübingen, with whom he remained 36 years until his death in 1843.
Translator James Mitchell has lived and worked for many years in Germany and San Francisco as a writer, book publisher and college teacher.
