Hyperion (poem)

"Hyperion" is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of 1819, when he gave it up as having "too many Miltonic inversions." He was also nursing his younger brother Tom, who died on 1 December 1818 of tuberculosis.

The themes and ideas were picked up again in Keats's The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, when he attempted to recast the epic by framing it with a personal quest to find truth and understanding.

Plot

The Titans are a pantheon of gods who ruled prior to the Olympians, and are now destined to fall. They include Saturn (king of the gods), Ops (his wife), Thea (his sister), Enceladus (god of war), Oceanus (god of the sea), Hyperion (the god of the sun) and Clymene (a young goddess). The poem opens with Saturn bemoaning the loss of his power, which is being overtaken by Jupiter. Thea leads him to a place where the other Titans sit, similarly miserable, and they discuss whether they should fight back against their conquest by the new gods (the Olympians). Oceanus declares that he is willing to surrender his power to Neptune (the new god of the sea) because Neptune is more beautiful (this is worth bearing in mind in relation to the Romantic idea that beauty is paramount). Clymene describes first hearing the music of Apollo, which she found beautiful to the point of pain (another Romantic idea). Finally, Enceladus makes a speech encouraging the Titans to fight.

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Hyperion

Hyperion is the name of a Greek Titan (pre-deity), see Hyperion (mythology)

in origin a byname of the Sun, see Helios

Hyperion may also refer to:

Animals and plants

Hyperion (genus), a genus of beetles in the Carabidae family

Hyperion (horse) (1930–1960), British bred Thoroughbred, a dual classic winner and an outstanding sire

Hyperion (tree), the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 metres (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree

Astronomy and geography

Hyperion (moon), a small moon of the planet Saturn

Hyperion, California

Hyperion Hotel, a setting for the TV series Angel

Hyperion Theater, a theater at the Disney California Adventure theme park in Anaheim, California

Hyperion sewage treatment plant, Los Angeles' oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility, located in Playa del Rey, California

Art

Hyperion, a sculpture created by Angela Laich after the main character of the Friedrich Hölderlin novel

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Hyperion (genus)

Hyperion schroetteri is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Hyperion.

References

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Hyperion (magazine)

Hyperion was a bimonthly literary magazine published out of Munich by Franz Blei and Carl Sternheim. Between 1908 and 1910, twelve booklets in ten editions appeared.

It was an expensively produced booklet with modern graphics created by Walter Tiemann. Not only major authors published in the magazine, but also unknown and first-published authors. The first eight prose works of Franz Kafka appeared in the magazine: Die Bäume, Kleider, Die Abweisung, Der Kaufmann, Zerstreutes Hinausschaun, Der Nachhauseweg, Die Vorüberlaufenden und Der Fahrgast.