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3: The Poems of Friedrich Holderlin
In September 1806,
Friedrich Holderlin was forcibly removed to a clinic for the insane. Discharged after eight months, he was given only three years to live, though he survived a further 36 living in a tower being cared for by a carpenter.
Before his mental breakdown, he wrote a series of elegies and hymns that make him one of the finest poets of the romantic age. Kevin Jackson explores this highly distinctive vision and the way this iconic figure inspired samizdat writers in East Germany.

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