by JohnHollander (Editor)
Some of the poets included in this anthology: Theocritus, Edmund Spenser, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Rossetti, Shelley and Kipling...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 19 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 185715732X
ISBN 13: 9781857157321
Book Overview: A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn.