/lit/ - Literature

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Unfortunately, I only know Hölderlin in German, so I can't recommend any translations. As for secondary literature, it depends on what interests you. For a philosophical interpretation you should of course get Heidegger. For a theological interpretation, the books by Romano Guardini. Wilhelm Waiblinger was a friend of Hölderlin and wrote a biographical essay. The Germanist Groddeck has written some readable analyses of Hölderlin's poems. If you want to be autistic, you can get the book Hölderlin's Rhythmus by Boris Previsic. It deals with the question of how "free" Hölderlin's free verse really was. The author then tries to prove, quite convincingly, that the free verse consist of fragments of ancient Greek verse forms, which are assembled by Hölderlin into a kind of metrical meta-language, which underlay the words with another level of meaning. That book is only for people who understand german, though.