The New Faber Book Of Love Poems

Description

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, "The New Faber Book of Love Poems" contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women - in short, something for everyone, and a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.

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The New Faber Book of Love Poems, edited by James Fenton, is a glorious collection of some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems ever written in English.

Author description

James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, columnist and foreign correspondent. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-9. His Selected Poems was published in 2006.