Idylls from Messina

1882 set of eight idylls composed by Friedrich Nietzsche

Idylls from Messina

Title page for Idyllen aus Messina (German language edition from 1973)

Author| Friedrich Nietzsche
Original title| Idyllen aus Messina
Language| German
Genre| Poetry

Publication date

| 1882
Preceded by| Morgenröte. Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile
Followed by| Die fröhliche Wissenschaft

Idylls from Messina (German: Idyllen aus Messina) is a set of eight idylls composed by Friedrich Nietzsche. These poems were written in Sicily during the spring of 1882, where Nietzsche remained for three weeks after arriving from Genoa.

In May 1882, those eight idylls were published in Internationale Monatschrift by Ernst Schmeitzner, 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 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 Die fröhliche Wissenschaft in 1887.

## References

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* 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 (ISBN 978-3-11-029303-6), 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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* The Birth of Tragedy
* On the Pathos of Truth
* Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
* On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
* Untimely Meditations
* On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
* Hymnus an das Leben
* Human, All Too Human
* The Dawn of Day
* Idylls from Messina
* The Gay Science
* Thus Spoke Zarathustra
* Beyond Good and Evil
* On the Genealogy of Morality
* The Case of Wagner
* Twilight of the Idols
* The Antichrist
* Ecce Homo
* Dionysian Dithyrambs
* Nietzsche contra Wagner
* The Will to Power (posthumous)

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* Affirmation
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* The Four Great Errors
* Eternal return
* Faith in the Earth
* Genealogy (philosophy)
* God is dead
* Holy Lie
* Immaculate perception
* Last man
* Master–slave morality
* Perspectivism
* Ressentiment
* Transvaluation of values
* Tschandala
* Übermensch
* Will to power
* World riddle

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