Friedrich Holderlin: Conviction

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Friedrich Holderlin, Friedrich Holderlin poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Romantic poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry

by Friedrich Holderlin
(1770 - 1843) Timeline

English version by
Michael Hamburger

Original Language
German

Secular or Eclectic : Romantic

Christian : Protestant

19th Century

Like the bright day that shines on humankind
And with a light of heavenly origin
All things obscure and various gathers in,
Is knowledge, deeply granted to the mind.

-- from Holderlin: Selected Poems and Fragments, by Friedrich Holderlin / Translated by Michael Hamburger

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	Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry: (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences), by Martin Heidegger
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	Hyperion and Selected Poems: (German Library), by Friedrich Holderlin
	Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Patrick Laude / Edited by Barry McDonald

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