Hyperion (Hölderlin novel)

Hyperion is an epistolary novel by the German Romantic Friedrich Hölderlin first published in 1797 (Volume 1) and 1799 (Volume 2). The full title is Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland (Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece). Each volume is divided into two books, and the second book includes an epigraph from Sophocles. Both Bellarmin and Diotima would appear in Hölderlin's later poetry. The work contains the interpolated poem "Hyperions Schicksalslied" (Hyperion's Song of Fate) on which Johannes Brahms composed the Schicksalslied Op.54 between 1869 and 1871.

Hyperion (Hölderlin novel)

Hyperion is an epistolary novel by the German Romantic Friedrich Hölderlin first published in 1797 (Volume 1) and 1799 (Volume 2). The full title is Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland (Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece). Each volume is divided into two books, and the second book includes an epigraph from Sophocles. Both Bellarmin and Diotima would appear in Hölderlin's later poetry. The work contains the interpolated poem "Hyperions Schicksalslied" (Hyperion's Song of Fate) on which Johannes Brahms composed the Schicksalslied Op.54 between 1869 and 1871.