On a moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, a

I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage where you may be safe Till further quest.—MILTON.On a moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed

Friedrich Hölderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to