• ABOUT THIS BOOK
• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT THE TRANSLATIONS
• THE POEMS
• POEMS FROM THE EARLY FRANKFURT PERIOD
• The Oaks
• To the Aether
• [and, smiling, the sovereigns…]
• To Diotima (“Beautiful creature…”)
• Diotima (“You favorite of the heavenly muse…”)
• Leisure
• [The nations were silent, they slumbered…]
• To Diotima (“Come and look at all the joy…”)
• THE SHORTER ODES
• The Unpardonable
• Then and Now
• The Lovers
• To the Germans (two stanzas)
• Her Recovery
• To the Young Poets
• The Course of Life (one stanza)
• To Her Genius
• Brevity
• To the Fates
• Apology
• Good Faith
• Diotima (“You fall silent and suffer…”; two stanzas)
• Home (two stanzas)
• Human Applause
• The Sanctimonious Poets
• Socrates and Alcibiades
• To Our Great Poets
• To the Sun God
• Sunset
• Voice of the People (two stanzas)
• LATER ODES; ELEGIES AND ELEGIAC FRAGMENTS
• [When I was a boy…]
• [Hyperion’s Song of Fate]
• Achilles
• [Time was the gods walked with men…]
• Man
• The Temperamental Ones
• Dying for the Fatherland
• The Time-Spirit
• Evening Fantasy
• In the Morning
• The Main
• Five Epigrams
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• Sophocles
• [The Angry Poet]
• [The Jokers]
• Root of All Evil
• What is Mine
• [Each day I walk…]
• [Go now and set, O beautiful sun…]
• The Gods
• Heidelberg
• The Neckar
• Empedocles
• To the Germans (14 stanzas)
• Rousseau
• Home (six stanzas)
• Love
• The Course of Life (four stanzas)
• Her Recovery (six stanzas)
• Diotima (“You fall silent and suffer…”; six stanzas)
• Return to the Homeland
• The Poet’s Calling
• The Voice of the People (second version; 18 stanzas)
• The Poet’s Courage (second version)
• The Fettered River
• The Blind Singer
• Stuttgart
• The Walk in the Country
• Bread and Wine
• Homecoming
• Bread and Wine (revised version)
• NIGHTSONGS
• Chiron
• Tears
• To Hope
• Vulcan
• Timidity
• Ganymede
• Half of Life
• Ages of Life
• The Shelter at Hardt
• APPENDIX A: NOTES TO THE POEMS
• POEMS, FRAGMENTS, AND REVISED STANZAS TRANSLATED IN APPENDIX A
• The Oaks (plan for alternative ending)
• Buonaparte
• To the Universally Known
• To Neuffer
• Descriptive Poetry
• [If I could hear the warning ones now…]
• Achilles (plan for alternative ending)
• The Battle
• In the Morning (earlier draft of ending)
• Heidelberg (stanzas from earlier draft)
• To the Germans (alternate draft of ending)
• Her Recovery (alternate draft of ending)
• Diotima (earlier second stanza)
• Return to the Homeland (revised stanzas)
• The Poet’s Calling (alternate draft of ending)
• Voice of the People (earlier draft of ending)
• The Poet’s Courage (first version)
• The Walk in the Country (alternate draft of ending)
• Homecoming (revision of last three stanzas)
• Request (last stanza)
• APPENDIX B CHRONOLOGY OF HÖLDERIN’S LIFE