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Endymion

A Poetic Romance

by John Keats

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First published
1818
Pages
99
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Read by Adrian Stephens, Alan Mapstone, Kurt and others · 4 h 14 min · 19 parts

  1. Preface

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  2. Book 1 lines 1-222

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  3. Book 1 lines 223-488

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  4. Book 1 lines 489-710

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  5. Book 1 lines 711-993

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  6. Book 2 lines 1-219

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  7. Book 2 lines 220-428

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  8. Book 2 lines 429-650

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  11. Book 3 lines 1-218

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  12. Book 3 lines 219-419

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  13. Book 3 lines 420-617

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  16. Book 4 lines 1-292

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Music and flowers fill a woodland gathering on the slopes of Latmos, where shepherds and children assemble around a marble altar. Endymion appears among the company with a smile, though some observers notice the trouble beneath it. In this poetic romance from 1818, John Keats sets personal sorrow against the comfort offered by beauty. The opening verses linger over trees, clear streams and remembered tales before bringing the young man into view.

Greek mythology gives the poem its figures and its imagined spaces. A passage with the sea overhead leads into reflections on worldly rulers, followed by praise of the moon and the longing of Cynthia. Rhyming lines connect small natural details, from an ivy leaf to a nesting bird, with mountains and the ocean. For readers of love poetry, the interest lies in how landscapes express feeling, while the preface offers Keats's own candid account of an uncertain young writer's ambitions.

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John Keats (1795-1821) was an English poet and, with Byron and Shelley, one of the central figures of the second wave of Romanticism. Trained as an apothecary, he abandoned medicine for poetry, and though critics savaged his early work, he died in Rome believing himself a failure.

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Book facts

First published
1818
Reading time
About 100 minutes
Pages
99
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Adrian Stephens, Alan Mapstone, Kurt and others