Lamia (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

Lamia is one of John Keats's most intricate narrative poems, a sensuous romance in which classical myth, enchantment, philosophy, and erotic desire are brought into luminous conflict. Drawing on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the mythic atmosphere of late Romanticism, Keats tells of the serpent-woman Lamia, her love for Lycius, and the destructive exposure wrought by cold rationalism. Its rich...