The Virago Book Of Love Poetry

For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless compendium. Here are love poems in all their true, subversive drama, delicately arranged according to a balance of moods and modes: of argument and lyric, joke and passionate utterance, rejection, rage and ecstacy. Poets, well-known and obscure, ancient and modern - from Sappho to Akhamotova,Patti Smith to Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath to Alice Walker - all challenge the traditional perception of women as muse and object of desire, and magnificently transcend it.

Title - The Virago Book Of Love Poetry

Edition -

Author - Wendy Mulford

ISBN 13 - 9781860494352

Imprint - Virago Press Ltd

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 05/02/1998

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 201 x 131 x 22mm

Weight - 218 g

Languages - English