Description
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.
Hardback, gift editon of some of our best loved love poems. 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.
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9781857157055
Author Peter Washington
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publisher Everyman
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 166mm * 114mm * 19mm
Hardback, gift editon of some of our best loved love poems. 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.
About the Author
Editor Biography:
Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Jazz Poems and Marriage Poems and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.
Book Information
ISBN 9781857157055
Author Peter Washington
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publisher Everyman
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 166mm * 114mm * 19mm
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