The HolderliniaeThe thirty hymns of The Hlderliniae are inspired by the intricacies and transcendent humanity of Beethoven's last quartets. Nathaniel Tarn's new book opens with a biographical note on the "Poet of Poets," Friedrich Hlderlin, setting the scene and introducing the doomed love of the poet's life, Diotima; it ends in the Neckar River, the river of Hlderlin's birth and death. Through affairs of love and polity, Tarn speaks through Hlderlin, and Hlderlin