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Book III: Poet goes on a tangent on politics, then calls upon Apollo n Diana; Endymion roams around the ocean n finds an old man withering away, but becomes lifeless once Endymion goes up to him; Glaucus reveals it was endymion's fate to free him n they go off to achieve that goal; glaucus reveals his background story-- sycalla rejected his advances, he finds comfort in circe, becomes enthralled, Scylla fall in luv

endymion book II: endymion meets adonis, who awakes when Venus comes to visit, Venus tells him that her relationship foreshadows his; goes to sleep and sees Diana in sleep and embraces her, wakes up and hears arthuesa and alpheus talking, then gets transported to the ocean. work has a decent amount of problems, but Keats' genius is evident, however one of his lesser/worst works

end of endymion book i. endymion tells peona that the girl in his dream is actually real and maybe it wasn't a dream, and sets sail in a boat. hard to read, partially because of subject and vocabulary structure, not his best work but flashes of genius def present

endymion's sister peona takes sleepy endymion to bower in midst of water, in sleeptalkish endymion says how peona's lyre will inspire him or whatever then peon thinks he did something to upset the gods, something worse than seeing Diana naked

currently on Endymion, great ambition and great writing, though at times it makes no sense grammatically and reading wise