Hyperion - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Résumé :
Hyperion: A Romance (1839) is a novel by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Although he is known predominately as one of the leading American poets of the nineteenth century, Longfellow began his career writing moderately successful travelogues, stories, and novels. Inspired by his travels throughout Europe, as well as by the death of his first wife, Longfellow published Hyperion: A Romance to lukewarm critical response. Although less significant than his lyric and epic poetry, Hyperion captures an artist coming into his own within a Romantic tradition flooded with major and minor figures across the globe. Modeled partly on Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (1796), Hyperion: A Romance is the story of Paul Flemming, a young academic who travels to Germany following the loss of a close friend. Taking in the sights, sounds, folk tales, and music of the countryside, towns, and villages he visits, Flemming muses on the position of humanity in the world and the meaning of art in relation to nature. Filled with such lofty thoughts, he is entirely unprepared to meet and fall in love with a German woman. At a moment of growth and on the brink of reconciling with his trauma, Flemming attempts to offer himself to another only to find that life has a strange way of reflecting the mind of the artist. Hyperion: A Romance is a fascinating blend of travel narrative, philosophy, and bildungsroman from a writer with a poet's sense of the world. This edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion: A Romance is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe....

Biographie:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet, translator, educator, and one of the most widely read literary figures of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine, he attended Bowdoin College and later taught modern languages at Bowdoin and Harvard. His deep knowledge of European languages, literature, folklore, and poetic traditions shaped his own writing and helped make him one of the central cultural voices of his time.Longfellow became famous for poems that combined musical language, memorable storytelling, moral feeling, historical imagination, and broad popular appeal. His major works include Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, The Village Blacksmith, Paul Revere's Ride, and the long poetic sequence Tales of a Wayside Inn. He also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, helping introduce one of the great works of world literature to American readers in English.During his lifetime, Longfellow was sometimes called America's most beloved poet, admired by readers in the United States, Britain, and beyond. His poetry helped shape nineteenth-century ideas of American literature, national memory, domestic virtue, historical romance, and moral imagination. Although later literary tastes changed, his work remains important for readers interested in American poetry, narrative verse, public memory, and the development of a literary culture that could reach both classrooms and general households....

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