Marriage Poems
By (Author) John Hollander
Everyman
Everyman's Library
15th June 1997
19th June 1997
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
808.8193543
Hardback
256
Width 115mm, Height 165mm, Spine 18mm
229g
A sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn. Some of the poets included in this anthology- Theocritus, Edmund Spenser, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Rossetti, Shelley and Kipling...