by Aphra Behn · Hesperus Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843910749
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«The Lover's Watch» is a manual of love in prose and verse by Aphra Behn, published by Hesperus Press in paperback (104 pages, in English).
A seventeenth-century text in which the beautiful Iris, aware of the hours of sighs she provokes, guides the absent lover hour by hour: from the morning «Agradable Ensoñación» to the five o'clock «Visitas Peligrosas», when temptations lurk. With interspersed verses, Behn ironizes about amorous customs and composes a guide for suitors.
Work originally published in 1686, recovered in 2004 within the Hesperus Classics collection. Behn (1640-1689) was the first professional woman writer in the English language.
For readers of English classics and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and for those seeking an ironic look at love relationships.
