Friedrich Hölderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new edition of Constantine's widely-praised Hölderlin "Selected Poems", containing several new translations, including one of the great elegy "Bread and Wine". Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Award in 1997 for this edition. The odes and hymns are more fully represented and there are further extracts, in an equivalent English, from Hölderlin s extraordinary German versions of Sophocles. Notes on the poems have also been expanded. This new volume is a stimulating introduction to the work of a poet who, writing around 1800, addresses us ever more urgently two centuries later.