Erotic Poems

Informationen zum Autor Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including  Love Poems , and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's  Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums , and  Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America. Klappentext These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's "Parody of a Lover" to John Betmeman's "Late-Flowering Lust," they re-create, through the revelations of language, that experience of the erotic. Other poets include Theodore Roethke, Robert Graves, Octavio Paz, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and many others. Zusammenfassung These poems! selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature! provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's "Parody of a Lover" to John Betmeman's "Late-Flowering Lust!" they re-create! through the revelations of language! that experience of the erotic. Other poets include Theodore Roethke! Robert Graves! Octavio Paz! Joseph Brodsky! Sylvia Plath! Frederico Garcia Lorca! Percy Bysshe Shelley! and many others.

Product details

• Authors: Everyman's Library, Carolyn B. Mitchell, Kevin Young
• Assisted by: Peter Washington (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman s Library PRH USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.1994
• EAN: 9780679433224
• ISBN: 978-0-679-43322-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 165 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Everyman's library; Everyman's Library Pocket Poet; Everyman's library; Everyman's Library Pocket Poet
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama