Famous Love Poems Explained (Famous Poems Explained Series) (Famous Poems Explained Series Volume 1) [Paperback]

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The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 1 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Song by George Gordon Byron
Mediocrity In Love Rejected by Thomas Carew
Song. To My Inconstant Mistress by Thomas Carew
The Good-morrow by John Donne
Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton
Corinna's Going A-maying by Robert Herrick
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
Rosalind's Madrigal by Thomas Lodge
To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace
To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair by Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
Patterns by Amy Lowell
Cupid And Campaspe [or, Cards And Kisses] by John Lyly
Hero's Beauty by Christopher Marlowe
Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
The Smiling Mouth by Charles D' Orleans
The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd by Walter Raleigh
Sonnet: 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 18 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 33 by William Shakespeare
Lullay, Lullay by John Skelton
Mannerly Margery, Milk And Ale by John Skelton
Amoretti: 70 by Edmund Spenser
A Ballad Upon [or, Of] A Wedding by John Suckling
Song [or, Orsames' Song] by John Suckling
Song by Edmund Waller
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Thomas Wyatt
To His Lute by Thomas Wyatt
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Roth Pub; 1 edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896093530
• ISBN-13: 978-0896093539
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,506,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic and Pedantic, March 28, 2001

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Rabbit the Reader (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Famous Love Poems Explained (Famous Poems Explained Series) (Famous Poems Explained Series Volume 1) (Paperback)

Literary criticism at its very worst. Humorless and mired in the type of literary interpretation that has turned off young readers for generations. No wonder whoever wrote this is never named, it was most likely part of the contract. Worse yet, it might have been taken from some 1910 edition of a college poetry text now in the public domain. The choice of poems is limited to a few English poets, mostly men, no one from the 20th Century and only a few from the 19th. The poems themselves are fine even if the choices are not particularly daring. The explanation of Andrew Marvell's wonderful and sly "To His Coy Mistress" is weighted down with lines like "Haunted by death, he would seek transcendence in the fiery release of violent embrace, consuming himself in desperate and blind groping." Give it a rest, the guy simply wanted to develop a non-platonic temporary relationship. Supposedly there are more of these books coming out covering other types of poetry. That would be a waste of perfectly good trees. If zero stars were an option, this would get zero stars.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This collection of love poems is just what I was looking for, March 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Famous Love Poems Explained (Famous Poems Explained Series) (Famous Poems Explained Series Volume 1) (Paperback)

The book is really interesting because it not only has a great collection of classic love poems, but it also provides you with commentary and interpretations of the poems. Just the ticket for a romantic gift to my husband on our anniversary!