The 64 Sonnets

by John Keats and Edward Hirsch

John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so ) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats was eighteen, the last just five years later. Reading these poems, you'll experience the wonder of Keats's growing poetic powers;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589880145
• ISBN13: 9781589880146
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Each poem is accompanied by a commentary

With an informative introduction by Edward Hirsh, this edition of John Keats' The 64 Sonnets will well serve to introduce a new generation of readers to the poetic genius of John Keats. It would also be an excellent replacement for shelf worn copies in personal, academic, and public library collections. Each poem is accompanied by a commentary providing context and background information on the sonnet. Nature withheld Cassandra in the Skies: Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies/For meet adornment a full thousand years;/She took their cream of beauty, fairest dyes,/And shaped and tinted her above all peers./Love meanwhile held her dearly with his wings,/And underneath their shadow charm'd her eyes/To such a richness, that the cloudy kings/Of high Olympus utter'd slavish sighs./When I beheld her on the earth descend,/My heart began to burn--and only pains,/They were my pleasures,/ they my sad life's end;/Love pour'd her beauty into my warm veins.