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Endymion

John Keats

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1818
Pages
Pages 140

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever": the first line is among the most quoted in English, and it came from a young man who had not yet written the odes. Keats set himself four thousand lines as a trial of his invention, and Endymion is that trial passed in wild abundance.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness;
Endymion, John Keats

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