The Flower of the Mouth

 Heidegger, "The Nature of Language" in On the Way to Language

Recommended:

Babich, Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Mere Being

Wallace Stevens

The Idea of Order at Key West

Of Mere Being 

Things of August

The Necessary Angel

Recommended:

 Critchley, “The Philosophical Significance of a Poem (On Wallace Stevens)”; Gardner, “Wallace Stevens and Metaphysics”; Goldfarb, “Poetics of Variation: Wallace Stevens’ and Paul Valéry’s Poems of the Sea”; McInerny, “The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry”; Kelley, “‘A Radiant and Productive Atmosphere’: Encounters of Wallace Stevens and Stanley Cavell”; Babich, “Wallace Stevens Philosophical Voice”; Pfau, “Confluences: Reading Wallace Stevens”

Hölderlin: Nature and Art

Hölderlin, Nature and Art, Saturn and Jupiter

Babich, “The Ethos of Nature and Art: Hölderlin’s Ecological Politics” in Words in Blood, Like Flowers

Recommended

Flodin, "Remembering Nature Through Art"

Michaelis, "The Deadly Goddess"

Istvan, "The Sacred, or the Bright Sounds of Silence"

Ospina, "Hölderlin and the U'wa"  

Schuwer, "Nature and the Holy"

Louth, "Urge for the Impossible"

Haar, "Heidegger and the God of Hölderlin"

Weller, "Literature and the Politics of Madness"

Fóti, "Speak You Also: Derrida's Readings of Paul Celan" in Mosaic 2006

Full of merit, yet poetically, the human / dwells... – Hölderlin

 

Heidegger, “Poetically the human dwells...”

Hölderlin, In lovely blue... 

Recommended:

Bambach, “Who is Heidegger's Hölderlin?” 

Bambach and George, “Introduction” to Philosophers and their Poets

Schmid, “Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Problem of Poiesis”

Babich, “Heidegger and Hölderlin on Aether and Life”

Harvey, “The Political Enemy of Public Space”

Robert Bly on Neruda

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Rilke: Duino Elegies

Anders/Arendt, “Duino Elegies” 

Recommended:

Charlie Louth, “Duineser Elegien” in Rilke: The Life of the Work

Babich, “Anders and Arendt: Reading Rilke, Love Songs to God” in Günther Anders' Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory

Between Swinburne and Baudelaire — and Hopkins

Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal/Flowers of Evil

Swinburne, Ave atque vale; A Forsaken Garden  

Hopkins, Spring and Fall, Spring and Death; No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief

Recommended: 

Garland, “Brothers in Paradox: Swinburne, Baudelaire, and the Paradox of Sin”

Eron, “Circles and the In-Between: Shaping Time, Space, and Paradox in Swinburnian Verse”

Casey “Hopkins: Poetry and Philosophy”

 

Nietzsche as Poet

Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Nietzsche. Dionysian Dithyrambs

Babich, “The ‘Gay’ Science”

Recommended:

Allen, “Nietzsche's Italian Decline” in Nietzsche in Italy

Burke, The Textual Estate

Kaufmann, 1955 “Nietzsche and Rilke”

L’Hermitte, The Troubadours through the Eyes of Nietzsche

Strong, “Preface” in Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics of the Ordinary 

Strong, “How to Write Scripture”

Babich, “Nietzsche and Eros between the devil and God’s deep blue sea: The problem of the artist as actor–Jew–woman”