Synopses & Reviews
This charming illustrated anthology brings together a wide range of poignant and beautiful works to create an evocation of love in all its aspects and moods. The text includes best loved sonnets and romantic pieces by the great poets, and is accompanied by rich, atmospheric paintings from every great period of art history.
-- A perfect lover's gift year round, available in ample time for Valentine's Day
-- Poems and prose by beloved authors such as William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Lord Byron
-- Paintings by Sir Lawrence Tadema, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and others portray passionate youths, wistful maidens, and languid lovers