''Idylls from Messina'' (german: Idyllen aus

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) is a set of eight

idyll An idyll (, ; from Greek , ''eidullion'', "short poem"; occasionally spelt ''idyl'' in American English) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the ''Idylls'' (Εἰδύλλια). U ...

s composed by

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

. These poems were written in

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during the spring of 1882, where Nietzsche remained for three weeks after arriving from

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. In May 1882, those eight idylls were published in ''

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'' by

Ernst Schmeitzner Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) ...

, Nietzsche's publisher at the time, with whom he would later sever all ties and whom he will eventually sue. They stem from the same voluminous amount of poetic attempts he took upon himself from February to April 1882, from which Nietzsche later composed his ''Vorspiel in deutschen Reimen'' to ''

Die fröhliche Wissenschaft ''The Gay Science'' (german: Die fröhliche Wissenschaft), sometimes translated as ''The Joyful Wisdom'' or ''The Joyous Science'', is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1882, and followed by a second edition in 1887 after the completio ...

'' in 1882. From these eight poems, Nietzsche used six, in marginally modified form, for the ''Lieder des Prinzen Vogelfrei'', the appendix for the second edition of ''

'' in 1887.

References

* Kaufmann, Sebastian: ''Kommentar zu Nietzsches Idyllen aus Messina'', in: Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken, hg. von der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften ( Nietzsche-Kommentar), Bd. 3/1, Berlin / Boston 2015 (), S. 457-543. (Review: Hermann Josef Schmidt
Nietzsches ''Morgenröthe'' und ''Idyllen aus Messina'', umfassend und kritisch kommentiert. Ein faszinierendes, wohlbelegtes, überfälliges, Diskussionen provozierendes Wagnis: Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken, Bd. 3/1, vorgestellt, diskutiert, aus genetischer Perspektive ergänzt und mit prinzipielleren Bemerkungen zur Nietzscheinterpretation garniert. Teil II: „Ich möchte eine Lerche sein“. Die ''Idyllen aus Messina'', kommentiert von Sebastian Kaufmann, im Kontext der Entwicklung von Nietzsches Lyrik – eine subversive Agentin seiner moralkritischen Philosophie?
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