From Ovid to Anne Bradstreet, Auden to Seamus Heaney?100 memorable poems to say I love you
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From�The Bible's�"The Song of Solomon" to Li Po's "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter," to recent masterpieces by the Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and the British Poet Laureate Andrew
Motion, each poem is preceded by pithy, introductory biographical notes. With favorites from W. H. Auden, Emily Bront禱, Carol Ann Duffy, Federico Garc穩a Lorca, and Jacques Pr矇vert, this is
a comprehensive collection to treasure. From the thrill of a new romance to the knowing celebration of an enduring one, from the comedy of lust to the tragedy of profound loss, celebrated
poets of past centuries and renowned modern ones confess their love, or beg for it, or rage against it, sometimes with humour and often with elegance.
