Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine
PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018 Jeremy Robson Variant wordings from Larkin's typescripts

Variant wordings from Larkin's typescripts and the early printings are recorded

It forms a sequel to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella’s pioneering anthology

impelled mainly because of the surrealism of a world in which the label and the content of any box seldom matched

as well as the changing face of her country

Drawing from neuroscience on the idea of 'internal gain'

Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine <br><b>PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018</b> Jeremy Robson Variant wordings from Larkin's typescriptsFriedrich Hlderlin was one of Europes greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantines widely praised Hlderlin Selected Poems (1990 1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hlderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for Hlderlin's extraordinary German