Hyperion (poem by John Keats)

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"Hyperion" is an unfinished epic poem by John Keats that reimagines the fall of the Titans and the rise of the Olympian gods in richly imaginative, Miltonic blank verse.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf epic poem
unfinished poem
author John Keats
centralCharacter Apollo
Oceanus
Saturn
Thea
centralDeity Hyperion
compositionEndYear 1819
compositionStartYear 1818
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationForm posthumous publication
focusOfBook1 lament of the fallen Titans
focusOfBook2 Apollo’s transformation into a god
genre Romantic poetry
epic poetry
hasBooks 2 completed books
fragment of a third book
hasCriticalReception often discussed as an unfinished masterpiece
praised for its Miltonic grandeur
hasRevisedVersion The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
influencedBy John Milton
Paradise Lost
isUnfinished true
language English
literaryDevice allusion to classical mythology
extended simile
imagery
literaryForm blank verse
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
literaryStatus major work in Keats’s oeuvre
metricalForm unrhymed iambic pentameter
movement Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism
mythologicalSource Greek mythology
narrativePerspective third-person
primaryTheme nature of poetic genius
suffering and transformation
supersession of old gods by new gods
setting mythic cosmos of Greek gods
styleDescriptor Miltonic
subjectMatter fall of the Titans
rise of the Olympian gods
timeOfAction after the defeat of the Titans
tone sublime
tragic

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