"This heady collection features love poems and prose excerpts by writers including Sappho, Shakespeare, Milton, the Brontes, and Wordsworth. Works are loosely arranged according to chapter headings drawn from particular poems, for instance "Love Is a Sickness" (after Samuel Daniel's poem), creating an engaging interchange of images and ideas, regardless of poet or era. As the title suggests, not every poem ends with a happily ever after; a Charlotte Mew poem reads, 'I so liked Spring last year/ Because you were here..../ This year's a different thing, --/ I'll not think of you.'

A collection of classic poetry and prose based on the enduring themes of love and romance, with an introduction by prize-winning children's author Jacqueline Wilson. Includes material from the Romantics, Thomas Hardy, John Milton, Jane Austen, and Emily Bronte as well as Ovid, Catullus, and less well-known authors.

Kate Agnew is a previous chair of the Children's Booksellers Association. She has also contributed to the "Cambridge Guide to Children's Books" and has edited several children's books.

Jacqueline Wilson, OBE, is an internationally best-selling children's author.

About the Author
Jacqueline Wilson has been on countless shortlists and won numerous awards, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was on the shortlist for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award and has won the 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Over 10 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone. Double Act was voted the nation's 10th favourite children's book, and Wilson was voted as the 4th favourite children's author. In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools.

Reviews
'A resonant sampling of both standards and lesser-known gems.' -- Publishers Weekly
'The selection is brilliant, creating cross-currents, complications, and time travelling coincidences to challenge intelligent readers.' -- Times Educational Supplement



Book Information
ISBN 9781840465235
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Wizard Books
Publisher Icon Books
Weight(grams) 165g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm