Hyperion: A Young American's Wanderings in Germany
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter and Karl Philipp Fohr. A young American, grieving, wanders through Germany reading, talking and falling in love — the Rhine, Heidelberg, a Swiss inn, a great deal of Jean Paul and Goethe. Longfellow was the most popular poet America ever had, recited by schoolchildren on two continents; this 1839 romance is barely a novel and frankly autobiographical, and it introduced German Romanticism to a country that had never heard of it. Fifty-five plates of castles, mountains and rivers, from Munch to Schütz, mirror the wandering through German landscape that fills these pages.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter and Karl Philipp Fohr. A young American, grieving, wanders through Germany reading, talking and falling in love — the Rhine, Heidelberg, a Swiss inn, a great deal of Jean Paul and Goethe. Longfellow was th...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular poet America has ever had — schoolchildren on two continents recited Hiawatha and Paul Revere's Ride by heart, and Britain put him in Poets' Corner, the only American there. He was also a Harvard professor fluent in a dozen languages who made the first American translation of Dante, undertaken as consolation after his wife died in a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular poet America has ever had — schoolchildren on two continents recited Hiawatha and Paul Revere's Ride by heart, and Britain put him in Poets' Corner, the only American there. He was also a Harvard professor fluent in a dozen languages who made the fi...
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