Holderlin and the Dynamics of Translation

Friedrich Holderlin's translations have long been seen as some of the most fascinating ever made, so radical and unconventional that they have altered our ideas of what translation is. Based on close study of the versions of Pindar and Sophocles, and placing Holderlin's practice in its eighteenth-century context, this book explores the meaning of translation for Holderlin's work as a whole, devoting particular attention to the poetry.