Sonnets (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

Sonnets (Complete Edition) gathers John Keats's concentrated experiments in a form that he inherited from Shakespeare, Milton, and the Italian tradition, yet made unmistakably his own. These poems move between sensuous immediacy and metaphysical pressure: art, mortality, desire, fame, melancholy, and poetic vocation are tested within the sonnet's narrow architecture. Keats's language is at once ri...