A review by elaananda
Classic Love Poems by Andrew Marvell, Robert Browning, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Christopher Marlowe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Lord Byron

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

I really enjoyed this collection as a sort of introduction to love poetry. Not all the poems were to my taste but I absolutely loved "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. It was also fascinating to see how not all these love poems were about traditional/idealised love, with some quite manipulative in tone and focused on lust/physical love instead. Highly recommend to anyone wanting to get into poetry!

"...and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."