Sources and abbreviations; Introduction Aris Fioretos; Part I: 1. Measure for measure: Holderlin and the place of philosophy Peter Fenves; 2. The calculation of the poet Jean-Luc Nancy; 3. Poetry's courage Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; 4. 'Winke': divine topoi in Holderlin, Heidegger, Nancy Hent de Vries; 5. Holderlin's christ Jean-Francois Courtine; 6. Epistolary writing, fate, language: Holderlin's 'hyperion' Edgar Pankow; Part II: 7. Figures of duality: Holderlin and Greek tragedy Arnaud Villani; 8. Monstrous history: Heidegger reading Holderlin Andrzej Warminski; 9. Disowning contingences in Holderlin's 'empedocles' Stanley Corngold; 10. Reading the 'poetics' after the 'rermarks' Christopher Fynsk; 11. Ancient sports and modern transports: Holderlin's tragic bodies Rainer Naggele; 12. Color read: Holderlin and translation Aris Fioretos; Part III: 13. The philosophy of poetic form: Holderlin's theory of poetry and teh classical German elegy Cyrus Hamlin; 14. 'Brod und Wein': from the 'classical' final version to the later revision Bernhard Boschenstein; 15. Turns and echoes: two examples of Holderlin's poetics Arne Melberg; 16. Holderlin's marginalization of language Hans-Jost Frey; 17. The highest Thomas Schestag; Notes; Holderlin in English: a bibliography; Index of names.
Aris Fioretos is Senior Researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Stockholm. Among his books are a translation into Swedish of Hölderlin's "patriotic hymns" and The Gray Book (Stanford, 1999).
"[The Solid Letter] should bring new readers to Holderlin, and they will be helped by the best bibliography available of translations and criticism in English." - MLR
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