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Transcript 31

Legenda

  January 2024

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Poetry and translation have often had much in common, and sometimes they exist in close collaboration. This is especially true in the work of Hölderlin, in whose poems the kinship is coupled with a way of reading the world and an attentiveness to crossings of all kinds: what can come over to us from the past, and what will pass on from us to posterity? What are the consequences for poetry if the present moment is understood as a perpetual transition? Translation can be a way of examining that idea, and poetry can perhaps negotiate the crossing itself. Later poets, such as Philippe Jaccottet, continue this line of thought, and in so doing effect a ‘translation’ of Hölderlin’s concerns. This is just some of the terrain ventured into in the essays collected here, all of which are deeply concerned with how the act of reading participates in the movement of individual poems.

Charlie Louth is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Queen's College, University of Oxford.

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