Word: endymion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manuscripts, not quite art for art's sake or literature for literature's sake, seem to epitomize the joy of collecting. A Gutenberg Bible, the original manuscripts of Keats' Endymion, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Pope's Essay on Man, among other works, have traveled about the country with the drawings and illuminations in this magnificent and unconventional exhibition which circulate, to a wider audience, J.P. Morgan's gift to the public...
...Orchestra, an excellent strings group under the leadership of Daniel Pinkham. As well as playing some diverting performances of music by Karl Friedrich Abel and Henry Purcell, the Orchestra presented works of two composers who were Leverett House men, Robert Moevs and Pinkham himself. The Adagio from the ballet Endymion by Moevs, and the Concertante by Pinkham were both notable more for their lyrical warmth than for modern astringent harmonies. Perhaps a sojourn in Leverett House would do us all good...
Matter of the Moment. These letters destroy two other romantic legends that have grown up about Keats. One is that he died from the pain caused by the vicious reviews the British literary magazines gave his early poem Endymion. The Keats revealed here was much too hardy to let a few brutal words break him. He wrote: "This is a mere matter of the moment-I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death...