Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poetica Erotica, Vol. 3: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse; Supplementary Poems
This volume completes the plan that I set for my self, which was to issue a rather selective yet a fairly comprehensive and representative collection of Ama tory verse in English. Difi'erent in character from the usual love poetry that is printed in Anthologies. My purpose was to select only such verse from the long line of English literature, original and translations, that had already established itself in print, and such Poetry that possessed charm, passion and humor, but always avoiding the merely vulgar and obscene. It would have been easy enough to fill a score of volumes with coarse poems, for English writing is as plentiful in pornographic specimens as any other. The text of all the verse in these three volumes is taken from standard editions, most of which have been carefully edited, but there has been no expurgation. That fine scholar, Dr. J. Woodfall Ebsworth who so very com petently edited the Roxburghe and Bagford Ballads and The Drollery Books, said in one of his prefaces.
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