
Chinese Erotic Poems
The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with th...
View full detailsThe ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with th...
View full detailsThese poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an ...
View full detailsAccording to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion "there is no textbook at al...
View full detailsIt has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the...
View full detailsA new collection of songs, sonnets and lyric poems that focus on love in the widest sense, encompassing relationships of all kinds. This volume inc...
View full detailsFrom Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented her...
View full detailsA sparkling collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony: courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, w...
View full detailsBelieved by scholars to be the inspiration for Tristan and Isolde, Vis and Ramin was written between 1050 and 1055 and is considered the first epic...
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