A Book of Love Poetry John Stallworthy (Editor)
Publisher: Tandem Library
ISBN: 0613180895
DDC: 821.0080354
Edition: School & Library Binding; 1999-10
Summary:
From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson,
more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love
than about any other subject. Jon Stallworthy has here selected some
of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the
English language. Representing the work of more than 190 poets, from
Sappho to Byron and Browning, from Rossetti to Wordsworth and E.E.
Cummings, he offers a startling collection of love poetry down
through the ages. Arranged thematically, beginning with the first
drawings of young love and ending with the "long look back" of the
aged, and revealing love in all its differrent aspects and
perversities, this anthology demonstrates vividly man's changeless
responses to the changing seasons of the heart. "Stallworthy's book
of love poetry, ranging across more than twenty centuries of writing
about love 'till the stars have run away' establishes beyond the
eye-shadow of a doubt that love is, has been and always will be
blind."--Christian Science Monitor "A very thorough job...eccentric
and entertaining."--Times Literary Supplement (London)
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