This author spent the second half of his life in a tower in the home of a carpenter after a mental breakdown. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German author who wrote about a freedom fighter in Greece in his 1799 novel Hyperion. His Romantic poems include “Bread and Wine” and “Patmos.”
ANSWER: Friedrich Hölderlin (“HULL-der-leen”) [or Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin]
[10m] Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion is written in this format, which was also used for the 18th-century novels Dangerous Liaisons and a work about Persian noblemen by Montesquieu (“mon-TESS-kee-oo”).
ANSWER: epistolary novels [or composed of letters or epistles or missives]
[10e] Hölderlin started writing Hyperion around the time this other German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther (“VAIR-tur”) patronizingly advised him to write “small poems” on “familiar human subjects.”
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“GUR-tuh”)
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