Friedrich Hölderlin

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born

March 20, 1770 in Germany

died

June 06, 1843

genre

Poetry

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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his seminary roommates and fellow Swabians Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 429 ratings · 26 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, Jeremy Adler (Editor), Michael Hamburger (Translator) 4.43 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hyperion 3.99 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1960 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, Michael Hamburger (Translator) 4.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1943 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Maxine Chernoff (Goodreads Author) (Translation), Paul Hoover (Translation) 4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1943 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Empedocles 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1799 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Saemtliche Werke 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Gedichte by Friedrich Hölderlin, Gerhard Kurz 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays And Letters On Theory 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sämtliche Gedichte Und Hyperion 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Alcaic Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Elizabeth Henderson 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin

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“Near and hard
to grasp
Is the God.
But where danger is
Deliverance also grows”
― Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Holderlin Eduard Morike - Selected Poems

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“You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin

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