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

Field/guide

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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”

What are poets for in times of need?

und wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit – Hölderlin 

Heidegger, “What are Poets For?”

 

Recommended: 

Bambach, “Who is Heidegger's Hölderlin” 

Ziarek, “The Poietic Momentum of Thought”

Babich, “Rilke and the Tone of Death”

Babich, “Heidegger and Leonard Cohen: You Want it Darker” 

Jetzt, komme Feuer! – Hölderlin [Now, come fire!]

Hölderlin The Ister | The Death of Empedocles

Milton, Lycidas

• Recommended: 
• Hölderlin, Bread and Wine
• Bilingual 
• Bambach, “Who Is Heidegger’s Hölderlin?”
• Louth, “Urge for the Impossible”
• Kommerell, “Hölderlin’s Empedocles Poems” in Bambach and George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets 
• Clemens, “Not Not: A Note on the Figures of Power in Giorgio Agamben”
• Babich, “Songs of the Sun: Hölderlin in Venice” in Words in Blood, Like Flowers
•  “The Ister: Politics, Geographies, and Rivers”
• “The Time of Kings”
•  Retrieving Agamben's Questions 

T.S. Eliot, Bergson, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Lacan

The Four Quartets

The Waste Land

Recommended: 

Regnault, “Lacan the Poem”

Silhol, “Lacan’s Function and Field of Speech and Language and T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land”

Richardson and Muller, Lacan and Language

 Abrol, “Encountering Bergson in Eliot”

Kaiser, “Disciplining The Waste Land, or How to Lead Critics into Temptation” 

Babich, “On the Order of the Real: Nietzsche and Lacan”

Plato on the Poets

 

Plato, Ion,* Symposium, Phaedrus*

Recommended: 

Kenney and Easterling, “Introduction to Plato on Poetry” in Plato and Poetry

Plato, Republic*

Gadamer, “Plato and the Poets”

Gonzalez, “The Hermeneutics of Madness: Poet and Philosopher in Plato’s Ion and Phaedrus” in Pierre Destrée and Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, eds., Plato and the Poets (full text here!)

Belfiore, “Poets at the Symposium,” alas not full text: here

Nehamas, “Plato and the Mass Media” 

* This is the way classical internet archive access should work... Jowett, trans.  

“Eros, once again”

On Pindar and the Greek lyric poets  Archilochus and Sappho 

(and Anne Carson's #ErostheBittersweet.)

Carson, Eros, The Bittersweet

     excerpts from Carson are hard to come by but see here for a tiny excerpt tough to download on scrib'd, also available on the Internet Archive, but not, in fact, as no download is available 

Rec: Babich, 'mousike techne' in The Hallelujah Effect [version available on line here] 

‘Philosophy

and the Poetic Eros of Thought’ 

https://www.amazon.com/Words-Blood-Like-Flowers-Contemporary/dp/0791468364

Introduction: Philosophy and Poetry

Reading: Pindar, 1^st Olympic Ode, Pindar, 2^nd Pythian Ode

Rec: Babich, “Pindar’s Becoming: Translating the Imperatives of Praise” (in Words in Blood, Like Flowers); Babich, “Mousike techne”