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James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best love poetry 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!
About the Author
James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, columnist and foreign correspondent. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-9. His Selected Poems was published in 2006.
ISBN: 9780571218158
ISBN-10: 0571218156
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 460
Published: 7th February 2008
Dimensions (cm): 19.6 x 12.6
x 3.4
Weight (kg): 0.391
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