Hyperion Pt 13 by Friedrich Hölderlin read by A Poetry Channel

The next installment for my audiobook.I am reading from the Willard R. Trask translation (pgs 110 -115). It is high Romanticism. I love it. The ideals of Truth and Beauty being man's salvation. If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_ap...

The text: https://archive.org/details/hyperiono...
The playlist thus far:    • Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin  

Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realization of his true vocation.

Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means.

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