Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

List of Abbreviations

pp ix-x

1 - Introduction

pp 1-20

I - Tragic Nature

pp 21-22

2 - Nature and Poetic Consciousness from Hölderlin to Rilke

pp 23-43

3 - Raging with Care: The Poet's Liquid Fire

pp 44-57

4 - The Order of the Unbound: Time and History in Hölderlin’s ‘The Titans’

pp 58-72

II - Hölderlin's Rivers

pp 73-74

5 - The Untamed Earth: The Labour of Rivers in Hölderlin's ‘The Ister’

pp 75-93

6 - Hölderlin's Local Abstraction: The Natural-Historical Sublime in ‘Voice of the People’

pp 94-122

7 - Translating Centaurs: Notes on Hölderlin's ‘The Life-Giving’

pp 123-140

III - Natural Beauty and the Absolute

pp 141-142

8 - Hölderlin's Mythopoetics: From ‘Aesthetic Letters’ to the New Mythology

pp 143-163

9 - The Transition Between the Possible and the Real: Nature as Contingency in Hölderlin's ‘The declining fatherland …’

pp 164-177

10 - ‘My whole being fell silent, and read’: Peter Handke’s Hölderlin and Heidegger Reception

pp 178-196

IV - The Place of Poetry

pp 197-198

11 - Nature, Nurse, Khôra: Notes on the Poetics of Hölderlin's Ode ‘Man’

pp 199-218

12 - Not Rhythm

pp 219-234

13 - allowed, disallowed

pp 235-251

Notes on Contributors

pp 252-255

Index

pp 256-261