Madness has a strange, bad rap. There’s nothing saner than a madman, often just a guy who wants to escape this planet, overrun with cold hearts, slumbering lives, and events that disgust still-warm, ...

Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger 823pp, Anvil Press, £19.95 Some people have the capacity to read exotic or old works of literature - pre 19th century, let's ...

Hölderlin's poems display those little shards of light which remind us of who we are and what we might become Like most people I am sure, I have spent many hours – far too many hours – going over in ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was rescued from oblivion by a young German scholar called Norbert von Hellingrath, who wrote a dissertation on Hölderlin’s translations of Pindar and began the first ...

Sublime visionary, great religious poet attracted to pagan myth and German poet of world-historical importance, Hölderlin (1770–1843) at the turn of the 19th century made his mark with Greek-inspired ...

Yet when the need was great I swore: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is set in a familiar realm of forever wars fought at the behest of cruel elites. Like all great fantasy, it shows us what might be ...

Ancient buildings, sunny southern landscapes or local mountain worlds: travel has inspired numerous artists to create new perspectives and pictorial worlds.

The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.