by Jon Stallworthy · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140585315
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«The Penguin Book of Love Poetry» is the anthology of love poetry edited by Jon Stallworthy, published by Penguin UK in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Anthology bringing together a wide selection of love poems from different eras, with pieces ranging from Ovid's satires to Berryman's elegies. The volume explores the nuances of love: its first signs, confessions, attempts at persuasion, deviations, separations and echoes, combining irony, emotion and celebration.
The anthology belongs to the Penguin Poets series and this edition, published in 1986, includes indexes.
A book for those who enjoy poetry and thematic collections about love.
Jon Howie Stallworthy, was a British literary critic and poet. He was Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000, and Professor Emeritus in retirement. He was also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1986, where he was twice acting president. From 1977 to 1986, he was the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell University.
