 Over and above his concern with aesthetics as a philosophical theme, the engagement with literature and art has been a continuing feature throughout Gadamer’s life and work and, in particular, Gadamer has written extensively on poets such as Celan, Goethe, Hölderlin, and Rilke (see especially Gadamer 1994b, 1997c). Gadamer’s engagement with art is strongly influenced by his dialogue with the history of philosophy, and he draws explicitly on Hegel as well as Plato. At the same time, that engagement provides an exemplification of Gadamer’s hermeneutics as well as a means to develop it further, while his hermeneutic approach to art itself constitutes a rethinking of aesthetics through the integration of aesthetics into hermeneutics (on Gadamer’s aesthetics in general, see Athos, 2013; Davey, 2013; Nielsen, 2023).