Lyric Orientations: H÷Lderlin, Rilke, And The Poetics Of Community (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, And Thought) - 9780801479328

In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich H÷lderlin (1770û1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875û1926). While H÷lderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each believes in the power of poetic language to orient us as social beings in contexts that otherwise can b