Hölderlin
Americannoun
noun
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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
Certain lines in the Hölderlin poems seemed wistful and fairly lucid.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015
The truth of the matter is, that with all his fervid enthusiasm for Hellenic ideals, and with all his Greek cult, Hölderlin was not the genuine Hellenist he thought himself to be.
From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun
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