Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy – Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Niet…

H\u00F6lderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche & Benjamin\nby Jeremy Tambling\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeremy Tambling\nTitle: H\u00F6lderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche & Benjamin\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781845197094\nISBN-10: 1845197097\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nH\u00F6lderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made his poetry infinitely complex as it e.