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The great German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) won the love and care of his younger contemporary, the rebellious writer Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830). This love found durable expression in Waiblinger's passionate novel Phaethon , translated in the present volume. It is based, in part, on Hoelderlin's own Hyperion , in which the protagonist claims that We are like fire, an assertion substantiated in Waiblinger s work. In Phaethon , the flames of the sun, youth, eros, art and the ideal of liberty incandescently burn. This story, whose eponymous hero recollects Hoelderlin as Waiblinger knew and imagined him, preserves among its pages several of Hoelderlin's most famous verse fragments. Phaethon appeared in 1823, when Hoelderlin was considered mad. Waiblinger scrupulously contests this verdict in his circumstantial essay 'Friedrich Hoelderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness.' Published in 1831, after Waiblinger's death, this essay is also included in the present volume. Waiblinger himself attracted the astringent affection of a later German writer, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), whose 'In Pressel's Gardenhouse' (1914) depicts the conduct of Hoelderlin, Waiblinger and the poet Edua

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Author

Wilhelm Waiblinger, Hermann Hesse

Publisher

Victoria, B.C.: ELS Editions

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781550583786

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14