Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries /

• Main Author: Murrey, Lucas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philology.; Comparative literature.; Germanic languages.; Greek language.; History of Philosophy.; Comparative Literature.; Germanic Languages.; Greek.; Classical Studies.

This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin’s poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language to challenge the estr...