piHyperion A Romancei 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 iHyperion A Romancei to lukewarm critical response. Although less significant than his lyric and epic poetry, iHyperioni captures an artist coming into his own within a Romantic tradition flooded with major and minor figures across the globe.p pModeled partly on Goethe's iWilhelm Meister's Lehrjahrei 1796, iHyperion A Romancei 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 t