Poesia vivente. Una lettura di Hölderlin

What does it mean to define a poem as “living” or “alive”? How, if at all, is it possible to capture life, the living element, in a poem? Is it not true that poetry, qua talis, is a “living language” different from the “dead” speculations of the intellect? At the turn into the 19th century, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) explored such issues, which were crucial to his own personal intellectual and poetic development. The present volume examines Hölderlin’s passionate search through an analysis of its forms, articulations and outcomes in his work.