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Love Songs and Sonnets - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Peter Washington (Hardcover)

Love Songs and Sonnets - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by  Peter Washington (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the same intimate format as Everyman's bestselling "Love Poems", this collection of songs, sonnets, and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense--and which encompass relationships of all kinds--includes a variety of delights by everyone from Petrarch to Keats, from Elinor Wylie to John Updike.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. <b>Love Songs and Sonnets</b> includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband." Shakespeare is here, of course, and Burnas, whose comparison of his love to a red, red rose remains one of the most celebrated of all poetic similes. This edition also includes a variety of delights by everyone from Thomas Wyatt to Langston Hughes, from Aphra Behn to John Updike. With a Foreword by Peter Washington, and an index of first lines.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>A new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. This volume includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorthy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem To My Husband. Shakespeare is here, of course, and Burns, whose comparison of his love to a red, red rose remains one of the most celebrated of all poetic similes. Love Songs and Sonnets includes a variety of delights by everyone from Thomas Wyatt to Langston Hughes, from Aphra Behn to John Updike.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including <i>Love Poems, </i>and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's <i>Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums</i>, and <i>Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.</i>

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