Elucidations of Holderin’s Poetry

The commentaries of Martin Heidegger on the lyric poems of German Romantic poet Friedrich H lderlin are an extraordinary encounter between poetry and the penetrating thought of a powerful philosophical mind. The writings included here reveal much about Heidegger's innermost thoughts on poetry, language, and how we think. This is the first English translation of this important work.

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher. Heidegger was educated at the Collegium Borromaeum and the University of Freiburg. He is often considered one of the greatest minds of twentieth century philosophy, specifically in regard to metaphysics, ontology, and hermeneutics. Heidegger is the author of Being and Time, Introduction to Metaphysics, The Principle of Reason, and many more.

Keith Hoeller has written numerous essays on poetry, and is the editor of Heidegger and Psychology and Thomas Szasz: Moral Philosopher of Psychiatry. Hoeller is also the editor of the Review of Existential Psychology & Psychiatry. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and teaches philosophy and psychology in the Washington state community college system.