Description: Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections--some beloved, others less well known--that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems' form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats's artistic evolution.
Brief description: Susan J. Wolfson is a leading expert on the poetry of John Keats. Her many books include Reading John Keats, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition, The Annotated Frankenstein, and John Keats (A Longman Cultural Edition). She is Professor of English at Princeton University.
Review Quotes: A generous, expertly chosen selection of Keats's greatest poems, accompanied by commentaries which are learned and lithe, brilliantly perceptive, extraordinarily informative, and infectiously full of delight. Really, you could not imagine a better companion to guide you through these endlessly marvelous poems.--Seamus Perry, editor of Coleridge's Notebooks