Tristia ex Ponto

Tristia ex Ponto, a collection of seventeen poems by F. Grillparzer, published in Vesta in 1835. The title is adapted from Ovid's Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. It opens with ‘Böse Stunde’, the ‘hour of anguish’, self-scrutiny, and hope for creative strength, which indicates the theme underlying the flexible temper of the cycle. ‘Jugenderinnerungen im Grünen’, written 1824-6, includes in its reminiscences allusions to Grillparzer's relationship to Kathi Fröhlich. The last poem, ‘Schlußwort’ (1830), passes the poet's sufferings into the sphere of dream.