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This intoxicating treasury is devoted to love in all its contrary states: the ecstasy of new romance, the knowing celebration of an enduring one, the comedy of lust, the heartbreak of profound loss. What rich pickings there are for an anthologist of love poems?haunting expressions of enduring love or of love lost, not to mention wonderful confessions, often robustly comical, of pure lust. Dannie Abse, one of Britain’s foremost poets, has selected a hundred poems, ranging from the verse of Catullus and Ovid to recent masterworks by Irish Nobel Prize?winner Seamus Heaney and acclaimed American poet Robert Lowell. All are preceded by pithy biographical notes. Here’s Christopher Marlowe sighing, “Come live with me and be my love,” while Michael Drayton announces, “Since there’s no help, let us kiss and part.” Aphra Behn reflects on the dilemma of loving two men; Marina Tsvetayeva, the Russian poet, asks her ex?lover, “How is your life with the other one?”; the 12th?century poet, Hywel, boasts of the many women he’s had, and five centuries later, the Earl of Rochester recalls, in shocking detail, how he seduced Sylvia. A lovely book to give as a gift or to keep for oneself. --- FROM THE PUBLISHER