The Love Poems (Ovid)(Paperback)

The Love Poems (Ovid)(Paperback)

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art of Love by Moore, published more than fifty years ago and still unequalled; the small

Heroides (Ovid)(Paperback)

In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal. The faithful

Erotic Poems (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The

Love Poems (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling selection of love poems from the Poet

The Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

' . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique.' --Virginia Quarterly

The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters (Ovid)(Paperback)

In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile--permanently, as it turned out--at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's

Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: A Selection of Love Poetry(Paperback / softback)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Pevná vazba)

Ovid's sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet's own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter of

100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems(Paperback / softback)

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem with the exception of Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. Through these poems many different kinds of love are explored whether it is sexual, passionate,

Penguin Classics Penguin's Poems for Love (Barber Laura)(Paperback)

An anthology of poems that takes you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the 'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken

Metamorphoses (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

In 'The Metamorphoses', Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the

Elegies of Love (Ovid)(Paperback)

Near the end of his life, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) began creating astonishingly an improvisatory and free life drawings. First published in a very limited edition in 1939, 31 of these drawings are paired here with selected Love Elegies from Ovid, one of Rodin's favorite authors. With Christopher

All We Saw: Poems (Michaels Anne)(Paperback)

Poems of elegy in the aftermath of a great love from the internationally best-selling, award-winning novelist (Fugitive Pieces, The Winter Vault) and poet. In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns with strikingly original poems to explore one of her essential concerns: 'what love makes us capable of,

Ten Poems about Love(Paperback / softback)

Art of Love (Ovid)(Paperback / softback)

It may have been written in the days of chariot races, gladiators, and emperors, but this new translation of the best teacher in history on the subject of love contains enduringly useful and entertaining adviceAre you a sought-after dreamboat forever turning down invitations from attractive

Poems on the Underground(Paperback / softback)

Includes poems old and new, familiar and unfamiliar that explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, family, dreams, war, music and nature, and feature hundreds of poets including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D H Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred

Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope (Guite Malcolm)(Paperback)

The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Neruda Pablo)(Paperback)

Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael Garc a Bernal and directed by Pablo Larra n A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flapsFirst published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canci n desesperada remains among

Love Poems for Anxious People (Kenney John)(Pevná vazba)

In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and

Love Poems (Neruda Pablo)(Paperback)

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an

Hand of Love (Haikal Simak)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of poems exploring the many themes of

The Bees (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

Here Carol Ann Duffy uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and--most movingly--the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's

Love Poems by Women: An Anthology of Poetry from Around the World and Through the Ages (Mulford Wendy)(Paperback)

Nation's Favourite: Love Poems (Goodwin Daisy)(Paperback / softback)

From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic