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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

Keats begins with love and talking about literary relationships, then attention is on endymion who has traveled long way and sees a special butterfly, who he chases to a fountain and it disappears, but then naiad comes out from fountain and tells him how she feels bad for him and would give him her treasure if she had any, and that he must pursue his love outside of this world

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