Poetry Books
Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
RRP: $2.00
Our Price: $2.00
You Save: $ ( % )
Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Average Customer Rating:
Our Price: $2.00
You Save: $ ( % )
Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Average Customer Rating:
Experimental feature: Order Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) from the UK, Canada, Germany or France by clicking an appropriate flag below.
Some items available at Amazon.com are not available in all countries.
Some items available at Amazon.com are not available in all countries.
Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.0080354
EAN: 9780486272849
ISBN: 0486272842
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1992-10-08
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.0080354
EAN: 9780486272849
ISBN: 0486272842
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1992-10-08
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
Editorial Review of Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Treasury of over 150 familiar poems by English and American poets, including a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as works by W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Keats, Milton, Robert Frost and many more.
Customer Reviews of Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: not the best collection, but acceptable
Review: Not the greatest collection. Still, the price is great for what you do get. A large sampling of great poems from many time periods.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderful little anthology.
Review: This anthology of poems is one of the best I have ever come across. As a whole it is lovely read and continues to delight from begining to end. It's inclusion of many early modern poets really adds most of the greatness of this collection. To read poems from centuries ago and see how the story and feeling of love has remained the same experience is quite a treat. It demstrates love's eternal presence in the human heart.
For the person who doesn't readd much poetry this would be a great introduction, as it's poems are very personal and expressive making it hard to the reader not to be moved. Many of the poems linger long after you have read them and thus add beauty and comfort to your days. It will inspire you to search for more anthologies, as this one is merely a sampling of all the great love poems written through the ages. It as flows well as any good anthology and is a good collection to return to again and again. I have remembered it better than most anthologies and so I recommend it to all readers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Inexpensive Collection of Classic Selections
Review: Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
~Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Great Love Poems is an inexpensive collection of classic selections. This anthology is a collection of poems from four centuries of literary creation.
Many of the poems are classic in themes of longing and loss. There are poems of great sorrow and poems of great passion. Most of the poems either reflect on the nature of love or seem to be written from the perspective of a lover.
I have recently discovered the effects of mood on the reading of poetry. These poems may seem overly dreary on an evening when you are missing the person you love or they can be seen more creatively in the light of day.
As you read poetry, the beauty is often in recognizing the reflection of your own emotions in the mirror of the poet's world. While reading Edmund Spenser's One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand, we can look back at love lost and see how our attempts at permanence are washed away by the waves of time itself.
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name,
You may recognize many famous poems throughout this work, although many were new to me. When we studied Andrew Marvell's "The Definition of Love" in school, how could the poem have meant as much in such an innocent state. Now, years later we understand impossibility, fate's jealous eye, the parallel lines that never meet. So, it is worth reading many of these poems again with new eyes and a more experienced heart.
Does Thomas Campbell's poem speak too much truth about love or is he simply focusing on infatuation and the fires of love?
Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel:
Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.
In this tiny book, you will find Edgar Allan Poe's "To One in Paradise" and Robert Browning's beautiful "Meeting at Night" with images of a gray sea and a moon large and low. I love the images of miles of warm sea-scented beach and fields the lover must cross to hear the voice of his true love. D. H. Lawrence's Gloire de Dijon was a definite find. I also found quite a few poems with water images, which I love.
~The Rebecca Review
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Many of the best love poems omitted
Review: This anthology has some of the greatest love poems in it. But it also fails to include many great love poems, including those of Wallace Stevens. It too should have stated that it confines itself to English Language poems only. It too has poems of the greatest quality ( the selections of Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth) and poems of much lesser value. I too believe that within many individual authors it could have had poems of higher quality.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: passion and romance
Review: This is an excellent collection of love poetry. You won't easily find this many classic gems under a single volume for such a low price. The only thing I regret is I would have liked to have seen some love poems from the second half of the 20th century too. But this collection, spaning 4 centuries, includes most of the greatest romantic verse ever penned by the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Burns, Byron, Poe, Browning, Yeats, Dickinson, Whitman, and so on. A worthy addition to any poetry lover's collection.
David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
Review Summary: not the best collection, but acceptable
Review: Not the greatest collection. Still, the price is great for what you do get. A large sampling of great poems from many time periods.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderful little anthology.
Review: This anthology of poems is one of the best I have ever come across. As a whole it is lovely read and continues to delight from begining to end. It's inclusion of many early modern poets really adds most of the greatness of this collection. To read poems from centuries ago and see how the story and feeling of love has remained the same experience is quite a treat. It demstrates love's eternal presence in the human heart.
For the person who doesn't readd much poetry this would be a great introduction, as it's poems are very personal and expressive making it hard to the reader not to be moved. Many of the poems linger long after you have read them and thus add beauty and comfort to your days. It will inspire you to search for more anthologies, as this one is merely a sampling of all the great love poems written through the ages. It as flows well as any good anthology and is a good collection to return to again and again. I have remembered it better than most anthologies and so I recommend it to all readers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Inexpensive Collection of Classic Selections
Review: Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.
~Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Great Love Poems is an inexpensive collection of classic selections. This anthology is a collection of poems from four centuries of literary creation.
Many of the poems are classic in themes of longing and loss. There are poems of great sorrow and poems of great passion. Most of the poems either reflect on the nature of love or seem to be written from the perspective of a lover.
I have recently discovered the effects of mood on the reading of poetry. These poems may seem overly dreary on an evening when you are missing the person you love or they can be seen more creatively in the light of day.
As you read poetry, the beauty is often in recognizing the reflection of your own emotions in the mirror of the poet's world. While reading Edmund Spenser's One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand, we can look back at love lost and see how our attempts at permanence are washed away by the waves of time itself.
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name,
You may recognize many famous poems throughout this work, although many were new to me. When we studied Andrew Marvell's "The Definition of Love" in school, how could the poem have meant as much in such an innocent state. Now, years later we understand impossibility, fate's jealous eye, the parallel lines that never meet. So, it is worth reading many of these poems again with new eyes and a more experienced heart.
Does Thomas Campbell's poem speak too much truth about love or is he simply focusing on infatuation and the fires of love?
Love's a fire that needs renewal
Of fresh beauty for its fuel:
Love's wing moults when caged and captured,
Only free, he soars enraptured.
In this tiny book, you will find Edgar Allan Poe's "To One in Paradise" and Robert Browning's beautiful "Meeting at Night" with images of a gray sea and a moon large and low. I love the images of miles of warm sea-scented beach and fields the lover must cross to hear the voice of his true love. D. H. Lawrence's Gloire de Dijon was a definite find. I also found quite a few poems with water images, which I love.
~The Rebecca Review
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Many of the best love poems omitted
Review: This anthology has some of the greatest love poems in it. But it also fails to include many great love poems, including those of Wallace Stevens. It too should have stated that it confines itself to English Language poems only. It too has poems of the greatest quality ( the selections of Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth) and poems of much lesser value. I too believe that within many individual authors it could have had poems of higher quality.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: passion and romance
Review: This is an excellent collection of love poetry. You won't easily find this many classic gems under a single volume for such a low price. The only thing I regret is I would have liked to have seen some love poems from the second half of the 20th century too. But this collection, spaning 4 centuries, includes most of the greatest romantic verse ever penned by the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Burns, Byron, Poe, Browning, Yeats, Dickinson, Whitman, and so on. A worthy addition to any poetry lover's collection.
David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"