Let us return now to 1935 and resume the chronological method, in order to watch Heidegger as he moves step by step toward a delineation of foundational thought. We must be patient with provisional obscurities, content if only we can comprehend the whole. EM was delivered as a course for the university students from May to July, and in November Heidegger delivered in Freiburg a lecture which, after having been expanded into three lectures during the following year, comes to us as "The Origin of a Work of Art."¹ During the course of that year (April), "Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry"² was delivered in Rome. Contemporary and complementary, the two texts should be thought together.