Table of Contents

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Translator's Note, pg. xiii*Chronology, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*Nightsongs, pg. 45*Hymns, pg. 53*Drafts of Hymns, pg. 121*Fragments, pg. 217*In Lovely Blue, pg. 247*Notes to the Poems, pg. 255*A Brief Bibliography of Holderlin in English, pg. 283*Index of German Tides, pg. 284*Index of English Titles, pg. 285

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Richard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.

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