{"product_id":"tarn-nathaniel-the-holderliniae-copy","title":"Tarn, Nathaniel: The Hölderliniae","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Directions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 6, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher Marketing: The thirty hymns of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eHölderliniae\u003c\/em\u003e are inspired by the intricacies and transcendent humanity of Beethoven's last quartets. Nathaniel Tarn's new book opens with a biographical note on the \"Poet of Poets,\" Friedrich Hölderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of Hölderlin's birth and death. Via affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through Hölderlin, and Hölderlin speaks through Tarn. The French Revolution--which Hölderlin supported passionately until the Reign of Terror--illuminates our wartorn, ecologically precarious age, as the failures of our age recall those past tragedies. Line after line carries Hölderlin's hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind's disciplines and make a universe of its own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44222431232023,"sku":"9780811230636","price":8.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/nt.gif?v=1607217108","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/tarn-nathaniel-the-holderliniae-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}