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Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht) (German-English)
Hymns to the Night - Hymnen an die Nacht - German-English Author:Novalis, Dick Higgins (Translator) Georg Friedrich Philipp, Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), who used the pseudonym "Novalis," wrote Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night) shortly after the death of his beloved Sophie von Kuhn from consumption, of which Novalis also died shortly afterwards at the age of twenty-nine. It is a deeply affecting poem that counters Deat... more »h with poetic virtuosity, rending compassion, and a strange religious mysticism, all of which speak across the centuries with visionary radiance. From its first publication in the Schlegel brothers' Athenaum, a literary magazine in the modern sense, Hymns to the Night was recognized as a major work and has become a classic of German romanticism.
This bilingual edition presents both the standard Athenaum version and a significant part of the variant manuscript which preceded it, with an English translation on facing pages. Although the Athenaum text has been translated many times, this is the most literal version translated into modern English.« less