title: Poems and Fragments: English and German Edition (Poetica) (German and English Edition)
author:  Friedrich H&ouml;lderlin 
description: <DIV><B>Johann Friedrich H&ouml;lderlin</B> was born in Germany in 1770. The vast majority of his groundbreaking poetry was written before 1807, though he died at the age of 73 in 1843.<BR /><BR /><B>Michael Hamburger</B> was born in Berlin in 1924 and came to Britain as a child in 1933. He is the foremost translator of German poetry into English - among the many authors he has translated from are H&ouml;lderlin, Celan, Rilke and Goethe - and one of Britain&#39;s leading poets of the period since World War 2.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV>
zlib_text: MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE
  
  Fol. 125r of the Manesse (Heidelberg) manuscript (slightly reduced/partial?). Text of the poem:
  Ich saz ûf eime steine…by Walther von der Vogelweide, with permission of Insel Verlag.
  
  MEDIEVAL GERMAN
  LITERATURE
  MARION E.GIBBS
  SIDNEY M.JOHNSON
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