Endymion

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Endymion is a long Romantic narrative poem by John Keats, best known for its opening line, “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”

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Endymion canonical 3
Endymion: A Poetic Romance 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romantic poem
narrative poem
poem
approximateLineCount 4000
author John Keats
basedOn Greek mythology
myth of Endymion and Selene
compositionStartYear 1817
countryOfOrigin England
United Kingdom
criticizedBy Blackwood's Magazine
Quarterly Review
dedicatedTo Thomas Chatterton
describedAs long Romantic narrative poem
featuresDeity Cynthia
Moon goddess
firstPublicationDate 1818
form heroic couplets
genre Romanticism
hasInfluenced English Romantic poetry criticism
hasPart Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
language English
literaryMovement second-generation Romantic poets
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
mainCharacter Cynthia
Endymion
meter rhymed iambic pentameter
notableQuote A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
numberOfBooks 4
openingLine A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
originalMedium print
originalTitle Endymion self-linksurface differs
surface form: Endymion: A Poetic Romance
placeOfComposition Hampstead
Isle of Wight
publicationYear 1818
publisher Taylor and Hessey
setting mythic ancient Greece
theme beauty
imagination
love
quest
relationship between beauty and truth
titleCharacter Endymion

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John Keats notableWork Endymion
Endymion originalTitle Endymion self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Endymion: A Poetic Romance
John notableWork Endymion
subject surface form: John Keats