Holderlin death of empedocles biography

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Though physically and mentally shaken, Hölderlin finished the second volume of Hyperion and began a tragedy, Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles), the first version of Missing: holderlin.
holderlin death of empedocles biography

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On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas.


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Hölderlin here depicts Empedocles leap, not as an act of despair, but of exuberance.
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Hölderlin was an accomplished poet before he began his tragedy or “mourning-play,” Trauer-spiel,1 and he had already made a name for himself through the publication of his novel .