Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index
Goethe and philosophy -- Goethe and the moral world -- On the course of human spiritual development : studies of Goethe's unfinished writings -- Hölderlin and antiquity -- Hölderlin and the future -- Bach and Weimar -- The god of most intimate feeling -- Poetry and punctuation -- Rainer Maria Rilke's interpretation of existence : on the book by Romano Guardini -- Mythopoietic reversal in Rilke's Duino elegies