Hyperion

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...