ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses John Keats's own criticism suggests that while he found fault with Endymion based on technical points, he believed the process of writing the poem and using it to explore his ideology or philosophy held real value. There are significant differences in how Peona and Endymion, and thus Keats, conceives of dreams and visions, and these differences are ones which appear not only in Endymion but also much later in The Fall of Hyperion which Keats, significantly, subtitles A Dream. Keats was attempting to use the hermetic concepts and linguistics advanced by the secret societies in order to both examine his own beliefs and more clearly express them in his writings.