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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Grief sends Paul Flemming up the Rhine

   Paul Flemming begins the book as a man whose world has gone dim. The friend of his youth is dead, and the places they shared now hurt to look at. He leaves America so that a sea may lie between him and the grave. The narrator tells us at once that no sea can lie between him and sorrow, except the sea of time.

   The first scene is set at Rolandseck on a damp December morning. Flemming has not slept, so he opens the balcony window and listens to the river rushing past. He sees none of it, because his own sadness fills his sight.

   At Andernach an old woman at the inn tells him of the Christ of Andernach. A stranger with a ladder and a lantern mends the roofs and gates of the poor by night, and nobody can say who he is. The tale shakes Flemming and shows him the power of popular belief.

   Grief colours everything a person sees, and an old tale can give it somewhere to rest.

2. 2

   Stolzenfels warns him against empty dreams

   At the village of Capellen, Flemming climbs to the ruin of Stolzenfels.

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3. 3

   In Heidelberg a friend and a castle wait

   Flemming arrives in Heidelberg by night.

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4. 4

   Fame matters less than patient, steady work

   One night Flemming drifts into a reverie about literary fame.

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5. 5

   Frankfurt, Goethe and a strange party at Ems

   The friends leave Heidelberg and stay a night at a mill in the Valley of Birkenau, where the Baron reminds Flemming that poetry cannot cure hunger.

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6. 6

   At Interlachen he hears a voice and finds Mary

   The Baron goes off to Berlin, and Flemming, restless, heads for Switzerland.

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7. 7

   Talks on art lead to a confession of love

   On a rainy day Flemming sits with Mary while she sketches.

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8. 8

   A fever, a poet's ruin, and a village by the lake

   The road to Innsbruck is dark and stormy.

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9. 9

   The book shows grief, death and time together

   Death is everywhere in Hyperion.

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10. 10

    How Longfellow builds his wandering romance

    Hyperion is told by a narrator who speaks to the reader as a friend.

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