Hyperion is a novel by Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...

 first published in 1797

1797 in literature

-Events:* Walter Scott marries Charlotte Carpenter.* Jane Austen finishes a draft of Pride and Prejudice.-New books:*Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton *Friedrich Hölderlin - Hyperion, volume 1...

 (Volume 1) and 1799

1799 in literature

-Events:* Charles Lamb becomes guardian of his sister, Mary Lamb, on the death of their father.* New edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Thomas Stothard.-New books:*Charles Brockden Brown**Arthur Mervyn**Edgar Huntly...

 (Volume 2). The full title is Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland (Hyperion or The Hermit in Greece).

The work is composed of letters from Hyperion to his friends Bellarmin and the writer Diotima

Susette Borkenstein Gontard

Susette Gontard, née Borkenstein , dubbed Diotima by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin after Diotima of Mantinea, was the inspiration for his novel Hyperion, published in 1797–1799. She was the wife of Hölderlin's employer, the Frankfurt banker J. F. Gontard...

. It is set in Greece and deals with invisible forces, conflicts, beauty, and hope.

Italian composer Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...

 includes passages from this work in his work Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima for string quartet (1980), as part of the score to be "sung" silently by the performers while playing the piece.

In 1983 the German sculptor Angela Laich

Angela Laich

Angela Isabella Laich is a sculptor, draughtsperson, and painter, who specialises in figurative sculpture...

 created a sculpture she called Hyperion after the main character of the Hölderlin novel.

English translations of Hyperion

• Hyperion translated by Ross Benjamin (Archipelago Books
  Archipelago Books
  Archipelago Books is an American not-for-profit literary publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation. Located Brooklyn, New York, it publishes small to mid-size runs of international fiction, poetry, and literary essays...
  
  , 2008) ISBN 978-0-9793330-2-6