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Love Poems (Everyman's Pocket Poets)
Peter Washington
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Description for Love Poems (Everyman's Pocket Poets)
Hardcover. Part of a series of small volumes with silk ribbon markers and headbands and gold stamping on the front and spine, and devoted to the world's classic poets. This is a collection of love poetry, ranging from ancient China, Japan, Greece and Rome to contemporary Europe and America. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 119 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857157055
SKU
V9781857157055
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About Peter Washington
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.
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