The New Faber Book of Love Poems - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0571218156 ISBN 13: 9780571218158

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2008

Riassunto

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 favorites, 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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Descrizione del libro:

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.

L'autore:

James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. His Selected Poems was published in 2006.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0571218156
• ISBN 13: 9780571218158
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: Fenton James