The thirty hymns of The H?lderliniae 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 H?lderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of H?lderlin's birth and death. Through affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through H?lderlin, and H?lderlin...
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