BRAIN-SICK SHEPHERD-PRINCE
‘A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER’
KEATS, John.
Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.
[London,] The Golden Cockerel Press, [1947].
Folio, pp. 150, [2]; with a frontispiece and 55 woodcut illustrations by Buckland-Wright, some full-page, no. 200 of 500 copies; a few leaves slightly foxed (as often with this work), else a very good copy in the publisher’s quarter vellum and red boards, stamped gilt.
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Endymion. A poetic romance … with engravings by John Buckland-Wright.
No. 200 of 500 copies of the Golden Cockerel Endymion (the first 100 specially bound in full vellum), also found in brown buckram rather than red as here; Buckland-Wright’s greatest work and one of the most important Golden Cockerel publications, begun in 1943 but not completed until late 1947.
Written by Keats in 1817, and first published in 1818, the poem tells ‘the story of Endymion, “the brain-sick shepherd-prince” of Mount Latmos, who falls in love with Cynthia, the moon, and descends to the depths of the earth to find her. There he encounters a real woman, Phoebe, and giving up his pursuit of the ideal he falls in love with her. She, however, turns out to be none other than Cynthia, who, after luring him, weary and perplexed, through “cloudy phantasms”, bears him away to eternal life. With the main story are woven the legends of Venus and Adonis, of Glaucus and Scylla, and of Arethusa’ (OCEL).
Franklin, p. 229.
