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alanffm's review against another edition
2.0
Despite its title, this small book of poems is not so much a book of erotic poems as much as it is an anthology of poems that pertain to—as the author states—the "spirit of Eros."
I appreciate that the breadth of poems covered in the anthology is chronologically vast (this book includes poems from early Greece, East Asia, India, and Arabia) but am terribly disappointed by the repetitive use of certain poets and the overall selection more broadly. Washington clearly has a fascination with certain poets like Robert Graves and Baudelaire. While that's fine, it is annoying to see the same poets take up so much room when there are plenty of other exceptional works from the humanities to choose from. That said, there were some great inclusions that would have been a sin to exclude.
This anthology is repetitive, lackluster, and hurriedly put together.
I appreciate that the breadth of poems covered in the anthology is chronologically vast (this book includes poems from early Greece, East Asia, India, and Arabia) but am terribly disappointed by the repetitive use of certain poets and the overall selection more broadly. Washington clearly has a fascination with certain poets like Robert Graves and Baudelaire. While that's fine, it is annoying to see the same poets take up so much room when there are plenty of other exceptional works from the humanities to choose from. That said, there were some great inclusions that would have been a sin to exclude.
This anthology is repetitive, lackluster, and hurriedly put together.
dernichtraucherin's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
would have liked more poems by women and less poems by men that compare tits to mountains. also a lot of rapey poems that arent fun to read.
mlindner's review against another edition
2.0
Editor has a strange view of erotic--even though he described it in the Intro I'm not sure he followed it--and the sequencing is horrible in spots.
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