The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton

The New Faber Book of Love Poems by James Fenton

James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, The New Faber Book of Love Poems contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women - in short, something for everyone, and a must-have for everyone's bookshelf.

James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. His Selected Poems was published in 2006.

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ISBN 13	9780571218158
ISBN 10	0571218156
Title	The New Faber Book of Love Poems
Author	James Fenton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2008-02-07
Number of pages	496
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