Johann Christian Friedrich H lderlin (1770- 1843) was a major
German lyric poet. His work bridges the Classical and Romantic
schools. H lderlin was a solitary figure, and suffered bouts of
mental illness throughout his life.
Jeremy Adler is Emeritus Professor of German and Senior Research
Fellow at King's College London. He is a sometime fellow of the
Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, and a Corresponding Member of
the German Academy of Language and Literature. He has written a
book on Goethe's Elective Affinities (1987), produced a catalogue
of visual poetry, Text als Figur (third edition, 1990), and edited
the collected works of August Stramm (1990). With Richard Fardon he
edited Franz Baermann Steiner's Selected Writings (1999), and also
edited Steiner's collected poems (2000) and selected aphorisms
(2009). His edition of H lderlin's Selected Poems and Fragments was
published by Penguin (1998), as was his illustrated life of Franz
Kafka (2001).
Charlie Louth was born in 1969 in Bristol. He is a Fellow of the
Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the
author of H lderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (1998).
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