'What will survive of us is love.'

In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.

Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.

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From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, and a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy, this book includes love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.
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From Shakespeare and Rossetti to Auden, Armitage and Carol An Duffy, <i>Poetry Please: Love Poems </i>is a treasury of the nation's favourites

Product details

ISBN
9780571328093
Published
2016-01-07
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
170 gr
Height
12 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
200 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

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Biographical note

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.