Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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Editor: Peter WashingtonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1993-11-02
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is a small collection of just exquisite love poems divided into seven sections: Definitions and Persuasions; Love and Poetry; Praising the Loved One: Pleasures and Pain; Fidelity and INconstancy; Abscence, Estrangment, and Parting; and Love Past. Each piece is first rate and contributes to our understanding of love and love poetry. Some of the excellent pieces you'll find inside are: Michael Drayton, Christina Rossetti, Catullus, C.P. Cavafy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Valery, Bhatrhari, Swinburne, Whitman, Marlowe, Roethke,Thomas Wyatt, Pushkin, Apollinaire, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Arthur Gorges, Byron, Robert Graves, Pierre de Ronsard, Poe, Shakespeare, Neruda,Zenodotos, Andrew Marvell, Donne, Herrick, and selecections from the Song of Solomon. All in all, a beautiful collection.
Summary of Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul.Includes poems by John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Sappho, Bhartrhari, Anna Akhmatova, and W. B. Yeats, among many others.
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