In this article, composed of two parts, conception of romantic love in Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion is investigated in a philosophical perspective. At first, the meaning of romanticism is explained by examples given from the history of art and philosophy. In the second part a detailed description of the love affair in the novel Hyperion is made. Throughout the article, features of the concept of love in the Hyperion is tried to be understood in its relation to Plato’s Symposium that is the first philosophical work ever written about love. In the conclusion, the contributions of Hyperion to the idea of love is elucidated.