Ode to a Nightingale (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale (Complete Edition) presents one of the supreme achievements of English Romantic lyric poetry: a meditation on mortality, imagination, art, and the seductive wish to escape human suffering. Its sensuous language—rich with wine, darkness, flowers, music, and myth—moves in intricate stanzaic structure between rapture and disillusion. Written in 1819, it belongs to Ke...