Endymion: A Poetic Romance
By John Keats
Cover: The Sleep of Endymion (1791), oil on canvas by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1824)
In Keats's long poem the shepherd prince Endymion dreams of a goddess he loves, the moon, and wanders over the earth, under the sea and through the air to find her. It opens 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' and is told in four books of couplets.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.