Book record
The Fire of the Gods Drives Us to Set Forth by Day and by Night
Friedrich Hölderlin
Translated from German by James Mitchell
The Fire of the Gods Drives Us to Set Forth by Day and by Night by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated from German by James Mitchell and published by Hoddypoll Press, is a book rooted in Germany. Hölderlin’s The Fire of the Gods Drives Us to Set Forth by Day and by Night, translated by James Mitchell, carries the charged grandeur one expects from a poet who never quite stopped writing under the pressure of divinity. The title alone gives the reader a useful instruction: movement, fire, compulsion, and wakefulness. This is German lyric at its prophetic edge, where poetry feels less like ornament than a form of exposure to forces too large for ordinary speech.
- Publisher
- Hoddypoll Press
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany