The belated publication of Another Version proved timely in its address to mid-century debates about poetic visions and poetic idealism amid the energies of the modern world. The poet enters her memory, its text supplied by a refreshed, refashioned Hyperion. It opens with an “induction” on the character of the poem at hand then the dream-frame takes the poet to an interrogation by the severest of muses, Moneta, sole survivor and repository of the Titans' catastrophe, whose brain holds it all. Recasting direct epic narration into the rehearsal of an inward turning of dream-vision, Keats's new version is intensely self-involved. This was actually a post-composed back-story, the work we now know as The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream. When Another Version of Keats's “Hyperion” appeared in 1857 in Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society 3, it was taken to be the original housing of Hyperion, not least because the first half is a dream-frame prequel. Poetry versus philosophy / poetry reverses philosophy
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