%0 Journal Article %T Keats¡¯s Gleaming Melancholy: A Reading of Endymion %A Christian LA CASSAGN¨¨RE %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2006 %I %R 10.4000/erea.365 %X It may seem paradoxical to analyse the nature and the work of melancholy in Keats¡¯s poetic creation without concentrating on the celebrated ¡°Ode on Melancholy¡±, written in May 1819, in the height of the annus mirabilis. And it may seem somewhat provocative to choose instead Endymion, written two years before, in 1817, a notoriously ¡°long poem¡±, as critics (taking up Keats¡¯s own phrase) usually say to present it¡ª a hardly engaging epithet to the 20th or 21st century poetry reader who shares Ez... %U http://erea.revues.org/365