| Book of Love Poetry Contributor(s): Stallworthy, Jon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195042328 ISBN-13: 9780195042320 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1986 Annotation: 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 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 job...eccentric and entertaining."--Times Literary Supplement (London) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 821.008 |
| LCCN: 86016183 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.15 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 job...eccentric and entertaining.--Times Literary Supplement (London) |
