It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a universal experience of the human soul.


Format Inbunden Omfång 256 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Everyman Utgivningsdatum 1993-10-21 ISBN 9781857157055