Erotic Poems: A Seductive Selection (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Washington, Peter [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0679433228 / ISBN 13: 9780679433224

Published by Everyman's Library, 1994

About this Item

clean sturdy copy. small blemish on mid spine and dent on top of spine. EP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Erotic Poems: A Seductive Selection (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679433228
• ISBN 13: 9780679433224
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.