Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine
PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018 Jeremy Robson Take This One to Bed

Take This One to Bed is a memorable

the same “warmth and a reassurance … in the correspondence itself

was adopted by India and married into Wales

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

” – Brian Patten

Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine <br><b>PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018</b> Jeremy Robson Take This One to BedFriedrich 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