A Book of Love Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195042328 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jon Stallworthy is Acting President of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Students would be piqued by subject and end up learning about good poetry!"--Claudia Basha, Victor Valley College . "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 jobeccentric and entertaining."--Times Literary Supplement (London)"More complex and thoughtful than I expected
Representing the work of more than 190 poets, from Sappho to Byron and Browning, from Rossetti to Wordsworth and E.E. 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. 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 different 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 jobeccentric and entertaining."--Times Literary Supplement (London). Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the English language. Cummings, he offers a startling collection of love poetry down through the ages
Rebecca of Amazon said We only part to meet again. A Book of Love Poetry is filled with poems you may have met before in your studies at school or while reading books of poetry. Who could forget "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" or "How Do I Love thee? Let me count the ways."There is comfort in the familiarity of Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd To His Love where he shows an intuitive understanding of love's fantasy. However, I was not prepared for S. lot's o' poetry, not just love poetry Good book. Not great.Although it has plenty of "love poetry" it also has poetry that you would definitely consider a downer.Not all love and roses.. The best collection of love poetry currently in print Robert James As a teacher, I loved this book. It puts in one place most of the world's greatest love poems, from the ancient Greeks and Romans up until the present day. There are substantial selections from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Donne, Marvell, and on and on. It contains both extremes of e.e. cummings' love poetry, from the raunchy "may I feel said he" to the sublimely romantic "somewhere i have never travelled." For longtime collect