Endymion Alihan Guesthouse, Selçuk - September 18th, Evening "A thing of beauty is a joy forever..." So begins Keats' Endymion, one of the marmoreal monuments of English Romantic poetry. The story is as renowned as anything else that ever came from where Helicon breaks down in cliff into the sea: the hero is born a shepherd in Latmos, fair beyond anything that the five-fingered mountain has ever beheld, the son of Zeus and the nympth Calyce. In a dream, he falls in love with the Moon herself - or possibly the god of sleep, Hypnos - and his lover secures him immortal youth, on one condition: that he while away eternity in the crystalline depths of slumber. Keats attempts a theme already sung by writers as diverse as Lyly and the bookish Apollonius Rhodius, and does
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