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Satis Shroff's Reviews > Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin Friedrich Holderlin’s Selected Poetry translated by David Constantine. The Swabian poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was born in Lauffen upon the Neckar on the 20th of March 250 years ago. He was a German poet and philosopher and was influenced by Hegel and Schelling, and was also an important thinker of German idealism. The strange and beautiful language of Friedrich Holderlin’s late poemshas been recreated by David Constantine in remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine’s Hölderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996) have been widely praised, containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hölderlin's Sophocles (2001). Here the English translator has tried to create an equivalent English for Hölderlin's extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. It might be mentioned that Constantine won the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1997 for his translatio...

Review: A Glance at Eternity (Satis Shroff) German Edition Eben Alexander MD: Blick in die Ewigkeit Die faszinierende Nahtoderfahrung eines Neurochirurgen Ansata, Münich 2013. Proof of Heaven. Simon & Schuster, Inc, New York , 2012. 256 pages, Hardback, ISBN 978-3-7787-7477-9   The soul is not born, nor will it die. This self doesn’t have an origin, and nothing originates from it. Birthless, constant, eternal and with age this self doesn’t decease when the body is killed. (Katha Upanishad) The Upanishads are spiritual teachings of Hindu philosophy scriptures dating back to 1000-800 BC. The basic thought of the Upanishads is the identity of the individual soul and universal soul. You as an individual have a fully complete, Godly manifestation of the entire cosmos within you. The author is a renowned neurosurgeon with 25 years of experience at the Havard Medical School , Boston . He got ill in November 2008 with a bacterial meningitis and was in a coma f...