Vintage Book of Love Poetry

by John Fuller

This anthology is shaped not by literary chronology but by the timeless human drama it records: its five 'acts' move from speculation and COUP DE FOUDRE through the troubled endurings of love - its consummations, dangers, joys, perversions and abdications - to loneliness and memory. In addition, the poems are presented anonymously, so that Marvell's coy lady rubs cold shoulders unexpectedly with Gershwin's naughty baby; and complex psychological fictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099730219
• ISBN13: 9780099730217
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"