This is a collection of Wyattis Petrarchan sonnets, songs, ballads, epigrams and rondeaux. The poems, in meticulously wrought stanzas, are mainly about love: love lost, won, and desired. Wyatt was the first of the great English Renaissance love poets. Wyattis poetry is too often neglected, beside towering talents such as Spenser, Shakespeare and Marlowe. Poems attributed to Wyatt are also here.

YOU BURN ME: POEMS by SAPPHO Translated by J.M. Edmonds Edited by Louise Cooper A book of poems by the ancient Greek poet Sappho, including a new gallery of images of Sappho's art (featuring Greek art and paintings).

Sappho has become one of the touchstones of Western poetry, an icon and heroine for poets of any gender. For the simple reason that her poetry is very, very good. Well, not just good, it's genius, the real thing. Sappho has been cited by many many poets, including Lord Byron, Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Addison, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Samuel Taylor...

THE CRESCENT MOON BOOK OF LOVE POETRY Edited by Louise Cooper

The great love poets collected here include Emily Bronte, Thomas, Hardy, Christina Rossetti, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, John Skelton, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Campion, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Anne Bradsheet, John Clare, Emily Dickinson and Queen Elizabeth I.

There are many famous love poems included here, as well as some lesser-known pieces. The selection ranges from anonymous mediaeval poems to the poets of the modern era such as D.H....