James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women - in short, something for everyone, and a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.
To every anthology, Grigson brought his habitual enthusiasm and his flair for the recondite. The Faber Book of Love Poems is no exception - a task undertaken con amore by a well-furnished mind and an experienced heart.
The Faber Book of Love Poems: Love Expected, Love Begun, the Plagues of Loving ...
Three Libretti—Ranging In Setting From Ancient Jerusalem To Pre-Apocalyptic London—From An Acclaimed Poet This volume of libretti marks new work—and new terrain—for James Fenton.
The work contains poems by authors from many different backgrounds, cultures and geographies, but they share a spirit of exploration, undertaken with humour and energy.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
Aims to describe the search, the sweetness, the sting and the death of love. This anthology's title is taken from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem...
A wry collection of poems in three parts, one of which is devoted to the dangers of love and the love of danger.
Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the ...
Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979–2006. London: Faber and Faber. ... The Guardian (8 February). http://www. theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/08/carol‐ann‐duffy‐book‐club (accessed 29 June 2015). ... The New Faber Book of Love Poems.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.