Publisher's Synopsis
A carefully curated selection of beautiful words from celebrated poets across the centuries, including Ronsard, Shakespeare, Goethe, Keats, Heine, Tennyson, Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Henri Cazalis, Emily Dickinson, Paul Verlaine, W. B. Yeats, Guillaume Apollinaire and Rupert Brooke. The original French and German poems are complemented by sensitively crafted translations and adaptations in English verse.