Love's Witness

Love's Witness Five Centuries of Love Poetry by Women

Paperback (11 Oct 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The work of women poets is often overlooked in anthologies, and collections of love poetry are no exception. This collection shows that on the subject of romantic and sexual love women can be just as eloquent as men - sometimes on the same themes, but often voicing different opinions and emotions - men rarely if ever wax lyrical on the subject of their fragility for example.;Here, the bitter and the sweet mingle as women from the last 500 years write about the transience of love, jealousy, fickleness, exhilaration and the pain of parting. The book includes poems by Stevie Smith, Emily Dickinson, Patricia Beer, Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, George Eliot and Queen Elizabeth I, amongst many others.

Book information

ISBN: 9781854872302
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Robinson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.00809287
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 424g
Height: 215mm
Width: 134mm