The poems in this volume of Odes, spanning six years from 1796 to 1802. These are key years in his career, for in them he meets and falls for his Diotima, sees published his Hyperion, should leave Frankfurt and his beloved, fails in its projects as editor of a literary magazine, travels to Switzerland and France, peanut festival the first symptoms of his illness and death just knowing Susette and taking refuge in his mother's house in Nürtingen. During these years working feverishly in his poems, revising and rewriting constantly, and that the composition of elegies, alternating songs and odes that have been selected for Txaro Santoro for their editing and translation