18世紀後半、リベラル派の学者たちの間でパーンへの関心が再び高まった。リチャード・ペイン・ナイトは『プリアポスの崇拝に関する論考』(1786年)で、パンを性愛を通して表現される創造の象徴として論じている。「パーンは生殖器に水を注いでいる、つまり多産な要素によって活発な創造力を活性化させている。」と説明している<ref>Payne-Knight, R. ''Discourse on the Worship of Priapus'', 1786, p.73</ref>。
ジョン・キーツの「エンディミオン」(1818年)は、パーンに捧げられた祭りで、パーンを讃える賛美歌が連呼されるところから始まる。ジョン・キーツの「エンディミオン」(1818年)は、パーンに捧げられた祭りで、パーンを讃える賛美歌が連呼されるところから始まる。羊飼いの神であるヤギの神は、キリストから『普遍的自然』(サンディス)まで、さまざまなレベルで長く寓意化されてきたが、ここではロマンティックな想像力の象徴、超人的知識の象徴となった<ref>Barnard, John. ''John Keats : The Complete Poems'', p. 587, ISBN:978-0-14-042210-8</ref>。
[[John Keats]]'s [[Endymion (poem)|"Endymion"]] (1818) opens with a festival dedicated to Pan where a stanzaic hymn is sung in praise of him. Keats's account of Pan's activities is largely drawn from the Elizabethan poets. Douglas Bush notes, "The goat-god, the tutelary divinity of shepherds, had long been allegorized on various levels, from Christ to 'Universall Nature' [[George Sandys|(Sandys)]]; here he becomes the symbol of the romantic imagination, of supra-mortal knowledge.{{'"}}<ref>Barnard, John. ''John Keats : The Complete Poems'', p. 587, {{ISBN|978-0-14-042210-8}}</ref>
In the late 19th century Pan became an increasingly common figure in literature and art. Patricia Merivale states that between 1890 and 1926 there was an "astonishing resurgence of interest in the Pan motif".<ref>Merivale, Patricia. ''Pan the Goat-God: his Myth in Modern Times'', Harvard University Press, 1969, p.vii.</ref> He appears in poetry, in novels and children's books, and is referenced in the name of the character [[Peter Pan]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Lurie, Alison|title=Afterword in ''Peter Pan''|publisher=[[Signet Books|Signet]]|date=2003|page=198|isbn=9780451520883|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6m9UTvQq7ZsC&pg=PA198}}</ref> In the [[Peter Pan]] stories, Peter represents a golden age of pre-civilisation in both the minds of very young children, before enculturation and education, and in the natural world outside the influence of humans. Peter Pan's character is both charming and selfish emphasizing our cultural confusion about whether human instincts are natural and good, or uncivilised and bad. [[J. M. Barrie]] describes Peter as ‘a betwixt and between’, part animal and part human, and uses this device to explore many issues of human and animal psychology within the Peter Pan stories.<ref>{{cite book|title=Peter Pan and the Mind of J M Barrie|last=Ridley|first=Rosalind|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4438-9107-3|location=UK}}</ref>