Nieuwe Engelse vertaling van Hölderlin

"Paul Hoover guesses that Hölderlin “was probably schizophrenic.” Ross Benjamin says he “suffered from severe hypochondria.” Isaak von Sinclair, a close friend, implied Hölderlin faked dementia to avoid prosecution for treason. The young poet Wilhelm Waiblinger, looking in on Hölderlin in 1825, wrote at length on the madman’s behavior, even then a cause célèbre (“If he leaves the house, he must first be reminded to wash and tidy himself, as his hands are usually dirty from having spent half of the day tearing grass from the ground.”) >> Ron Slate bespreekt de recente Hölderlin-vertaling van Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover verschenen bij Omnidawn.