Art & Love: An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry

"Romantic love, family love, platonic love, lost love, ideal love troubled love. ... Throughout the ages great poets have written about the many sides of love and great artists have depicted its power and beauty. Now love poetry and treasures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been united in the elegant new anthology. The results are inspired. Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is paired with the deliciously provocative painting The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honoré Fragonard, Maya Angelou's "Come, And Be My Baby" accompanies Romare Bearden's collage The Block, T.S. Eliot's tender "A Dedication to My Wife" appears alongside an ethereal painting by Odilon Redon. More than 150 poets are represented, including Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Tu Fu, Dante Alighieri, Elizabeth Bishop, Noel Coward, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The illustrations are equally varied and range from a statue of an affectionate Egyptian couple who live more than 4,000 years ago to the contemporary painting The Heart, South of Naples by Jim Dine. In addition to paintings and sculptures, there are prints and photographs, drawings, frescoes, tapestries, and objects in gold and porcelain."--Publisher's description.