Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine
PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018 Amali Rodrigo the kind that comes in

the kind that comes in close to your ear to whisper dark secrets and unavoidable truths

Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends

JT Welsch and Ágnes Lehóczky have assembled an anthology to mark the vital contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country’s poetry culture

Matt Merritt

If the history of civilisation has been a journey away from our rubbish

Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine <br><b>PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018</b> Amali Rodrigo the kind that comes inFriedrich 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