«The Lord Chandos Letter» (1902) – Hofmannsthal's programmatic text – is considered in the article in connection with the linguistic – philosophical views of Friedrich Nietzsche. It is accentuated that despite a strong influence that Nietzsche's philosophy practiced on Hofmannsthal and his belief in the essential particular, Hofmannsthal was not strict follower of his philosophy. Position, elected from him in terms of Nietzsche could be described as a classic example of an active dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Hofmannsthal's text is written from the position of experienced rationalism, in which all the theses presented by Nietzsche on the philosophical level are not simply psychologized but are personalized in a particular context of the unique creative spirit and unique poetic existence.
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