Hyperion

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Hyperion is a novel of remarkable emotional force, poetic sublimity, and enduring influence. This sole novel by the iconic German lyric poet explores the pivotal phases of a poet’s life journey, the struggle for freedom, the divinity of nature and love, and the meaning of solitude. Friedrich Hölderlin’s gestures toward a higher spiritual unity left their mark on the founding texts of the nineteenth century.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) has achieved recognition as one of the ...

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Hyperion is a novel of remarkable emotional force, poetic sublimity, and enduring influence. This sole novel by the iconic German lyric poet explores the pivotal phases of a poet’s life journey, the struggle for freedom, the divinity of nature and love, and the meaning of solitude. Friedrich Hölderlin’s gestures toward a higher spiritual unity left their mark on the founding texts of the nineteenth century.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) has achieved recognition as one of the greatest German poets of lyrical verse. His work had a profound influence on German Romanticism.

Ross Benjamin is a freelance writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. His reviews have appeared in Bookforum, The Nation, and The New York Times.

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In the euphonious movement of its prose, in the sublimity and beauty of the figures that appear in it, it makes an impression upon me similar to the beat of the waves of the troubled sea. Indeed, this prose is music, soft melting sounds interrupted by painful dissonances, finally expiring in dark, uncanny dirges. --Friedrich Nietzsche

But if there were words in which to grasp the relation between myth and the inner life from which the later poem sprang it would be those of Hölderlin. "Myths, which take leave of the earth, / ... They return to mankind." --Walter Benjamin

The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin unquestionably belongs in the intense company of Shelley, Kleist, Novalis, Lenz, and Büchner…. [Hölderlin’s] is one of the great writers’ lives, full of intensity and movement, work and projects, abrupt departures and friendships….It was reading Hölderlin that gave Rilke the impetus for his Duino Elegies. --Michael Hofmann
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  • ISBN-13: 9780979333026
  • Publisher: Archipelago Books
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 170
  • Sales rank: 693,098
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 6.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) achieved recognition as one of the greatest German poets of lyrical verse. Schoolmate of Hegel and Schelling, Holderlin's poems contain threads of philosophical thinking and Greek dramatic themes. Holderlin wrote Hyperion, his only extended prose work, shortly before being institutionalized for his mental instabilities. Ross Benjamin is a freelance writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Nation, Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation and other publications. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and a 2005 Woolrich Writing Fellow at Columbia University.

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