Skip Rhudy

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Recently browsing the New Direction’s author list, I saw a title by Nathanial Tarn, The Hölderliniae. There is deep image density in Hölderlin’s poetry, the meter unregulated, and no particular dedication to rhyme; his syntactic playfulness upsets expectation when reading. I quote Tarn: It took a hundred years for Hölderlin to be recognized not only […]

How the mistakes and missteps of two men, one nearly 60 years old and the other 30, contributed to — or even caused — the English language debut of one of the most renowned and powerful German writers in recent history to be delayed by a quarter of a century: In the fall of 1989 […]