ABSTRACT
Having completed his trial of invention and test of his powers, Keats put Endymion before the public in April 1818, and after a tour of Scotland, soon found himself caring for his brother Tom who was dying of tuberculosis. Although he continued to write verse throughout the year, including the fragment Hyperion, it was January of 1819 before he began a period of intense composition and produced the series of poems for which he is most remembered. In the intervening time, reviews of Endymion began to appear, oftentimes combined with reviews of his 1817 volume Poems.
