Norbert von Hellingrath's influential mythologization of Hölderlin for the German nation, the increasingly patriotic status that the songs and hymns acquired during the Third Reich, the problematic evolution of the Hölderlin Society, lyric meditations on "Andenken" by Günter Eich and Paul Celan, and finally post-1968 reassessments of the putative political upstart whose deep-seated Jacobinism was cut short by mental decrepitude and physical isolation in "the tower." Savage carefully probes the layers of Heidegger's postwar Gespräch, highlighting its covert dialogue with Plato as a fellow participant in the occidental history of being and its more immediate goal of reorienting Germany toward its true cultural epicenter Swabia, the native soil of both poet and thinker.