When Love Speaks Poetry and Prose for Weddings, Relationships and Married Life

Adam O'Riordan

Paperback (03 Feb 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The perfect gift for Valentine's Day

'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with harmony'
Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare

When Love Speaks brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.G. Wodehouse, love letters of the great composers to Edwardian marriage advice. These poems and passages capture high romance and everyday happiness, feverish first love and tender union. This joyful anthology provides a range of unique and inspiring readings for a wedding or civil ceremony.

Selected by the poet Adam O'Riordan

About the Publisher

Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics has existed since the inception of Vintage and is widely seen as the top twentieth-century classics list in the UK, publishing Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, among others. August 2007 saw the relaunch of the list and Vintage Classics now also publishes the greatest writers from previous centuries, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Henry James.

Book information

ISBN:	9780099541387
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Pub date:	03 Feb 2011
DEWEY:	808.8193543
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	260
Weight:	210g
Height:	196mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	20mm