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Here is a comprehensive introduction for the English reader to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. The poet is studied in the context of the romantic age, but as one who imparted depth to the movement and influenced the critical debates of the 20th century.Adrian Del Caro presents as detailed, readable discussion of Hölderlin's major poems that clarifies, but does not lose sight of, the powerful formulations that animate Hölderlinian spirit. Hölderlin's specific effort in the determination of the direction of modern man had to do with the relationship of poetry to being. Del Caro draws on the contributions of Nietzsche and Heidegger within the theoretical framework of the question of being. Hölderlin, "the poet of poets," is presented at work and in his works as the instrument of conviviality binding mortal to mortal and mortal to divine.

Martin Heidegger’s 1934–1935 lectures on Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" are considered the most significant among Heidegger’s lectures on Hölderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text illustrates Heidegger’s turn toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by Hölderlin’s poetry. These lectures are important for understanding Heidegger’s changing relation to politics, his turn toward Nietzsche, his thinking about the German language, and his breakthrough to a new kind of poetic thinking. First published in 1980 as volume 39 of Heidegger’s Complete Works, this graceful and rigorous English-language translation will be widely discussed in continental philosophy and literary theory.

Mortal Thought seeks to illustrate the artistic and philosophical contexts for Hölderlin's poetic thought and to trace his profound impact upon subsequent philosophy, most notably Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, Heidegger and Post-structuralism. Beginning with the point of departure of Hölderlin in Kant and Fichte, Mortal Thought outlines the novel philosophical innovations of Hölderlin, and their influence upon philosophy from the 19th century to the present day. A renewed appreciation of Hölderlin will allow us to retrieve an authentic philosophy for our own era. Mortal Thought lays out a concise, clear and comprehensive account of the emergence of Hölderlin as philosopher and poet, of his influence upon the four dominant strands of Continental philosophy - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Critical Theory and Poet-structuralism - and of his relevance for us in our own era.

The "Hlderlin -Lieder" (Hlderlin songs) of Wilhelm Killmayer, now released by WERGO, provide a portrait of the later Hlderlin, the portrait of a person living in solitude and isolation. The poet Hlderlin lived the last 35 years of his life in a tower in Tbingen. The poems which he wrote during this time, bear witness to a man who removed himself from the public, "historical" world, who became a complete "stranger" he had always felt himself to be. Killmayer says about his compositions: "The

Friedrich Hlderlin's Hyperion oder der Eremit in Griechenland, is a non-linear account of a sensitive young man's life in the tumultuous and spiritually barren times of the late Eighteenth Century. Like the cyclic rhythm of Nature, the end of this incredible story becomes its beginning and the visionary experiences described and, indeed, life itself, are seen as everlasting. Through a series of letters from his native Greece where he has returned from Germany to raise another Athens, Hyperion relates to his friend, Bellarmin, his attempts to escape spiritual poverty and his meeting with Adamas and Alabanda; and then his fateful meeting with Diotima. Against the drama of wars, love, divided loyalties, delayed letters, loss, death and the ebb and flow of Hyperion s physical and spiritual life is the powerful background of mysterious and timeless Nature; and Hlderlin s warning against neglect of Nature, which was regarded as inferior to Man, was timely; today it is vital. Unappreciated, writing poetry far beyond his time, deeply in love with a married woman, Friedrich Hlderlin is the true Romantic artist who lived his ideals. Hlderlin is Hyperion and Susette Gontard his Diotima (both safely removed to Greece from the gossips of Germany!) From his now openly declared love, Hlderlin continues to write unrecognised sublime poetry and on the untimely death of his beloved Susette, goes mad, living the rest of his life in a romantic tower on the Neckar, the river that had accompanied him throughout his life.