Endymion

About “Endymion”

Endymion is a poem by John Keats, first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey in London. Keats dedicated the work to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem opens with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." It is written in rhyming couplets with an iambic pentameter rhythm. The poem is based on the Greek myth of Endymion, a shepherd who was loved by the moon goddess Selene. In the poem, Selene is renamed Cynthia. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)