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German Romanticism

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Romanticism

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is singular in standing mainly for a lack, almost as a cipher marking a space that might one day be filled, and not a name whose originals might be pointed out.

Hölderlin’s phrase ‘the gods’ is singular in standing mainly for a lack, almost as a cipher marking a space that might one day be filled, and not a name whose originals might be pointed out.

is necessarily the result whenever man tries to make this earth his heaven.

What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven. Friedrich Holderlin

is the real founder and determiner of human history, legislating the basic myths, assumptions and ways of seeing that are then inhabited by others.

The reception of Heidegger’s readings of poetry has been held back by a simplistic understanding of Heidegger’ s affirmation of Hölderlin’ s view that poets are the real founders and determiners of human history, legislating the basic myths, assumptions and ways of seeing that are then inhabited by others.

The first two pointers seem to contradict one another. Pointer number one is found in a letter to his mother in 1799, where Hölderlin calls poetry the most innocent of occupations.

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