Endymion

poem by Keats

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discussed in biography

  • Keats, John
    In John Keats: Early works

    …Canterbury and began work on Endymion, his first long poem. On his return to London he moved into lodgings in Hampstead with his brothers. Endymion appeared in 1818. This work is divided into four 1,000-line sections, and its verse is composed in loose rhymed couplets. The poem narrates a version…

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inspired by “Paradise Lost”

  • Gustave Doré: depiction of Satan
    In Paradise Lost

    …and John Keats’s long poem Endymion. Milton wrote a companion piece, Paradise Regained, in 1671, which dramatizes the temptation of Christ.

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place in English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: The later Romantics: Shelley, Keats, and Byron

    …his early work, such as Endymion (1818), could produce an over-luxuriant, cloying effect. As the program set out in his early poem “Sleep and Poetry” shows, however, Keats was determined to discipline himself: even before February 1820, when he first began to cough blood, he may have known that he…

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