Odes and Elegies (Paperback)

ABOUT THIS BOOK ? INTRODUCTION ? ABOUT THE TRANSLATIONS ? THE POEMS ? POEMS FROM THE EARLY FRANKFURT PERIOD ? The Oaks ? To the Aether ? [and, smiling, the sovereigns] ? To Diotima ("Beautiful creature") ? Diotima ("You favorite of the heavenly muse") ? Leisure ? [The nations were silent, they slumbered] ? To Diotima ("Come and look at all the joy") ? THE SHORTER ODES ? The Unpardonable ? Then and Now ? The Lovers ? To the Germans (two stanzas) ? Her Recovery ? To the Young Poets ? The Course of Life (one stanza) ? To Her Genius ? Brevity ? To the Fates ? Apology ? Good Faith ? Diotima ("You fall silent and suffer"; two stanzas) ? Home (two stanzas) ? Human Applause ? The Sanctimonious Poets ? Socrates and Alcibiades ? To Our Great Poets ? To the Sun God ? Sunset ? Voice of the People (two stanzas) ? LATER ODES; ELEGIES AND ELEGIAC FRAGMENTS ? [When I was a boy] ? [Hyperion's Song of Fate] ? Achilles ? [Time was the gods walked with men] ? Man ? The Temperamental Ones ? Dying for the Fatherland ? The Time-Spirit ? Evening Fantasy ? In the Morning ? The Main ? Five Epigrams ? ? Sophocles ? [The Angry Poet] ? [The Jokers] ? Root of All Evil ? What is Mine ? [Each day I walk] ? [Go now and set, O beautiful sun] ? The Gods ? Heidelberg ? The Neckar ? Empedocles ? To the Germans (14 stanzas) ? Rousseau ? Home (six stanzas) ? Love ? The Course of Life (four stanzas) ? Her Recovery (six stanzas) ? Diotima ("You fall silent and suffer"; six stanzas) ? Return to the Homeland ? The Poet's Calling ? The Voice of the People (second version; 18 stanzas) ? The Poet's Courage (second version) ? The Fettered River ? The Blind Singer ? Stuttgart ? The Walk in the Country ? Bread and Wine ? Homecoming ? Bread and Wine (revised version) ? NIGHTSONGS ? Chiron ? Tears ? To Hope ? Vulcan ? Timidity ? Ganymede ? Half of Life ? Ages of Life ? The Shelter at Hardt ? APPENDIX A: NOTES TO THE POEMS ? POEMS, FRAGMENTS, AND REVISED STANZAS TRANSLATED IN APPENDIX A ? The Oaks (plan for alternative ending) ? Buonaparte ? To the Universally Known ? To Neuffer ? Descriptive Poetry ? [If I could hear the warning ones now] ? Achilles (plan for alternative ending) ? The Battle ? In the Morning (earlier draft of ending) ? Heidelberg (stanzas from earlier draft) ? To the Germans (alternate draft of ending) ? Her Recovery (alternate draft of ending) ? Diotima (earlier second stanza) ? Return to the Homeland (revised stanzas) ? The Poet's Calling (alternate draft of ending) ? Voice of the People (earlier draft of ending) ? The Poet's Courage (first version) ? The Walk in the Country (alternate draft of ending) ? Homecoming (revision of last three stanzas) ? Request (last stanza) ? APPENDIX B CHRONOLOGY OF HOLDERIN'S LIFE