Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure pp 131-147 | Cite as
‘Wherein Lies Happiness?’: Endymion (1818)
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While he was composing Endymion during1817, Keats gradually drifted away from Hunt. Indeed, the poem pointed to his personal and poetical distancingfrom the latter’s influence. The sociality of Hunt’s coterie celebrated throughout Poems was replaced by the weary solitude of the hero of Endymion. Whereas Poems consisted of poems about writing poetry, which amounted to no more than ‘invocations’, Endymion handled a ‘real’ subject matter ± the Greek legend of Endymion and Cynthia ± however thin it may have appeared.
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Chapter 6 ‘Wherein lies happiness?’: Endymion (1818)
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