On 4 May 2017 at 12:01, David Dollenmayer wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 4 May 2017 12:01:31 -0400
Subject: Re: NBA: Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece
> T. J. Reed's blurb overlooks Ross Benjamin's 2008 translation
> (Archipelago Books).
Willard Trask was responsible for the first published translation in English in
1965 (Signet Classics). (Bayard Quincy Morgan produced one in the early
1940s, but this is extant only in typescript.) Eric Santner's compilation
Hölderlin:
Hyperion and Selected Poems of 1990 (Continuum) opens with a
reprint of Trask, lightly reworked by David Schwarz. So India Russell's version
would qualify as somewhere between the third and the fourth.
Number 4 1/2 is not far behind!
Howard Gaskill
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> > Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece: Friedrich Hölderlin
> > Translated by India Russell
> >
> > In a series of letters from his native Greece, Hyperion relates his
> > attempt to escape spiritual poverty, culminating in a clandestine
> > relationship with his muse, Diotima.
> >
> > 'Holderlin's remarkable novel was missing from the corpus of his
> > work available in translation. India Russell has filled the gap in
> > style, taking the unashamedly noble poetic prose head-on and
> > rendering it in a matching style that gives direct access to this
> > extraordinary mind.' (T.J. Reed, Oxford)
> >
> > 'Hölderlin's spirit of search and lament, his celebration of Beauty
> > of which our fallen world is both the prison and the vehicle, find a
> > fitting counterpart in India Russell, whose poetic sensibility
> > echoes the poignant Platonism of the great Romantics.' (John Carey,
> > University College Cork)
> >
> > 'Your translation has given me real pleasure. I think you manage to
> > convey very abundantly the feel of Hölderlin's extraordinary and
> > intensely poetic prose. And you have the courage not to domesticate
> > the strangeness of what he writes.' (Martin Swales, University
> > College London)
> >
> > Ely: Melrose Books, 1917
> > ISBN 978-1-911280-32-3 240pp Hardback: £14.99
> >
> > Available online at
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