Hölderlin

American  

[hœl-duhr-leen] / ˈhœl dərˌlin /

noun

1. Johann Christian Friedrich 1770–1843, German poet.

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Hölderlin British  

/ ˈhœldərliːn /

noun

1. Friedrich (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1770–1843, German lyric poet, whose works include the poems Menon's Lament for Diotima and Bread and Wine and the novel Hyperion (1797–99)

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Hölderlin

He left a biography of Hölderlin on his desk with this sentence underlined: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Henze connected the symphony to the life of Friedrich Hölderlin, a poet who had a mental breakdown in Tübingen, living his last 36 years in a tower room overlooking the Neckar river.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2016

This piece is an hourlong song cycle for tenor, guitar and eight other instruments that alternates vocal settings of six feverish, strangely haunting German poems by Friedrich Hölderlin with seven instrumental interludes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

Inspired to write “Kammermusik 1958” after a trip to Greece, he turned to Hölderlin, who had a lifelong fascination with Greek gods and myths.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

So that while for Hölderlin intercourse with nature afforded the greatest relief from his sorrows, Lenau's Weltschmerz was on the contrary intensified thereby.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred