Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
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Love appears as a missing heart, a broken promise and a force that slips past every barrier in this collection of early English verse. John Potter Briscoe brings together poems by writers including Thomas Wyatt, William Shakespeare, John Donne and Robert Herrick. The selections range from sonnets to short songs, with shepherds, flowers and imagined conversations giving personal feelings a variety of voices.
Wyatt's opening poems turn affection into a plea for care and loyalty. Elsewhere, a rejected gift of flowers becomes a complaint about an indifferent beloved, while another speaker divides his admiration between two women. Such changes of mood make the anthology useful for comparing how different poets handle devotion, disappointment and doubt. Readers interested in older English poetry can follow repeated subjects across distinct rhythms and forms, rather than reading a single continuous story.
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- John Potter Briscoe
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