Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Hölderlin's texts, and other abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Hölderlin's Nachtgesänge -- 1 Voyaging Out: Going Astray -- I Biography -- II The Caesura -- III 'Andenken' -- 2 Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Madness and Mourning -- I Tragedy and Madness -- II 'Mnemosyne' and the Bacchae -- III 'Mnemosyne' and Ajax -- 3 Hölderlin and Greece -- I Hyperion -- II Hölderlin on Tragedy -- III Empedocles: Third Version -- 4 Elegies, Odes, Hymns and Aphorisms -- I 'Brod Und Wein' -- II 'Dichterberuf' -- III 'Wie Wenn Am Feiertage' -- IV 'Patmos' -- V 'Der Rhein' and 'In Lieblicher Bläue' -- VI 'Wenn Aber Die Himmlischen' -- 5 Tuché and Automaton: Hölderlin and Oedipus -- I Hölderlin on Oedipus -- II Chance Encounters -- 6 Antigone -- I Post-Hegelian Readings -- II Heidegger and Translation -- III Lacan: Antigone -- IV Hölderlin's Antigone -- V Appendix: Oedipus at Colonus -- 7 Nietzsche, Tragedy, Shakespeare -- I The Birth of Tragedy -- II 'Die Titanen' and 'Der Einzige' -- III On the Genius -- 8 The Origin of German Tragic Drama -- Conclusion: 'Friedensfeier' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Holderlin's Works -- Index of Names and Subjects.