The book of the German philosopher, Catholic theologian of Italian descent Romano Guardini is dedicated to the outstanding German poet, who lived in the last quarter of the 18th - first half of the 19th century, a classmate of Hegel (in his student years), with whom he continued to correspond. Hölderlin's views on beauty are later developed in the philosophical schools of Schelling and Hegel. The work was first published in German in 1939.