PUNKADIDDLE: Dan Simmons, Endymion (1996), The Rise of Endymion (1997) PUNKADIDDLE Punkadiddle Friday, 7 January 2011 Dan Simmons, Endymion (1996), The Rise of Endymion (1997) Endymion is early Keats, and it’s not very good: inchoate, and written in lumpish rhyming couplets, its most famous bit concerns beauty—‘a thing of beauty,’ the