The Significance of Locality in the Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin

Abstract

Hölderlin's poetic world, seen at its most coherent in the mature poetry of 1800-02, is part classical and Homeric, part allegorical and vague, and part based on the true geography of his beloved homeland, Swabia — his 'Vaterland'. Constantine considers the imaginative processes by which such a world is created, and what kind of poetic intelligence Hölderlin's was. This book, originally published in paperback in 1979 under the ISBN 978-0-900547-53-9, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.