Marriage Poems

HOLLANDER,JOHN

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Author
HOLLANDER,JOHN
Publish Date
04/01/1997
Book Type
hardcover
Publisher Name
RNDMHSE
Edition
2
Number of Pages
256
ISBN-10
0679455159
ISBN-13
9780679455158
citemno
226651
SKU
9780679455158

Description

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 Shakespeare to Omar Khayyám to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn. From the rapturous infatuation of the Song of Songs to Ovid's cynical advice on 'The Art of Deceiving a Husband,' no facet of the matrimonial state remains unexplored.