01763cam a2200301 4500 350142398 TxAuBib 20120710120000.0 930604s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93011427 9780679429067 0679429069 (OCoLC)28424027 DLC DLC XY4 BAKER BTCTA YDXCP G8V AZU LF3 ZVM TxAuBib Love poems / selected and edited by Peter Washington. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1993. 256 p. ; 17 cm. Everyman's library pocket poets Includes index. Definitions and persuasions -- Love and poetry -- Praising the loved one -- Pleasures and pains -- Fidelity and inconstancy -- Absence, estrangement, and parting -- Love past. 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. 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. 20120710. Love poetry. Love/Sex/Eroticism. Washington, Peter. Everyman's library pocket poets. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/93011427.html Publisher description