Paratactic Composition in Hölderlin's "Hälfte des Lebens"

Hölderlin's later hymns are typically understood as the poet's attempt to tether his poetic word to the "narrative rhythms" of a world-historical Spirit as it unfolds along a path of epiphanies from Asia, to Greece, and finally to Hesperia. "Hälfte des Lebens," the most...

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Religious poetry
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Syntax
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