Hymns to the Night

This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete Athenäum version of Friedrich von Hardenberg's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise a deeply affecting poem that speaks across the centuries with unquestioned radiance. "Appropriate for general readers and for scholars interested in the art of translation." — Choice