The Erotic Poems

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Random House
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141913940

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The Erotic Poems by Ovid Pdf

This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the Cures for Love, with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812246254

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Ovid's Erotic Poems by Ovid Pdf

The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.

Author : Peter Washington
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679433224

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Erotic Poems by Peter Washington Pdf

These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From fourth-century Li Ch'ung's "Parody of a Lover" to John Betmeman's "Late-Flowering Lust," they re-create, through the revelations of language, that experience of the erotic. Other poets include Theodore Roethke, Robert Graves, Octavio Paz, Joseph Brodsky, Sylvia Plath, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and many others.

Author : e. e. cummings
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780871406590

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Erotic Poems by e. e. cummings Pdf

E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage. from “16” may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he) why not said she

Author : Salil Jha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692265295

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Naked Soul by Salil Jha Pdf

"Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems" is an extraordinary storytelling in the form of erotic love poetry, speaking directly to the reader's heart through sensations that course throughout the body. This powerful collection of erotic and sensual love poems celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms -- from intense passionate sexual desire to seductive victory. There are love poems for every mood and sentimental feeling, for every phase of love you are experiencing whether you are with a partner or not. Read it slowly. Read a poem at a time, or two-or all at once-but give it time to sink into your heart. Read them again. Visualize. Let the poem show you what may be lying dormant in your own heart. Any poetry lover who loves deep symbolism, storytelling and musing over deep verses will find this book very touching. No matter which phase of love you are growing in currently, this book will serve to sail you further towards the endless ocean of love.

Author : S. Blush
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497364124

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Shades of Blush by S. Blush Pdf

"Shades Of Blush" is a collection of sexually explicit poems written to get the juices flowing so to speak. Sort of a verbal foreplay if you will. Some of these works are sure to make you blush. The words and images they conjure up are sure to quicken your heart rate "as well as increase blood flow to certain areas of the body." Keep this handy in the bedroom and bring it along as a travel companion too. You can read a poem or two, sit back, close your eyes and relax into an erotic daydream. Or, share it with a friend, take turns reading to one another and see where things lead! You married couples will love it too! So take off some clothes, read a little, and remember, "In fantasy's, you can do anything!" SO ENJOY! Put a little spice back in your love life! Read one a day and improve your play!

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015073982863

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The Best American Erotic Poems by David Lehman Pdf

There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality. These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy. David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy. In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing. This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 9780099518822

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The Art of Love by Ovid Pdf

Tells about where to meet a new beau, how to handle illicit affairs and how to maintain your allure.

Author : Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015074283535

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Chinese Erotic Poems by Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping Pdf

A dazzling collection of Chinese erotic poems about deep love and pure lust, enticement and seduction, ecstasy and disappointment, that span nearly three thousand years and include many poems never before translated into English. 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 this glorious collection spanning nearly Here are poems that express need, hunger, grief, and longing—for husbands and wives and for concubines and lovers; poems by turns explicit or subtle, light-hearted or desperate, written from both men’s and women’s points of view. The editors have drawn on a wide range of sources from 600 BCE to the present, including highly literary poems, popular verse, and folk songs, as well as poems that appeared in ancient Daoist sex manuals, in classical novels of the Ming Dynasty, and in collections of erotic prints. The result is an array of voices that speak the universal language of desire. For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 019283939X

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Erotic Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Editorial censorship has long obscured Goethe's Roman Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany. They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them, together with the long-supressed narrative poem known as The Diary. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. An illuminating Introduction by Hans Vaget provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780231545464

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Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit by Anonim Pdf

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable poetic tradition.

Author : Charles Eliot Norton
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875637360

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The Love Poems of John Donne by Charles Eliot Norton Pdf

Author : Stephen Bertman
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516547993

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Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome (Second Edition) by Stephen Bertman Pdf

Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization. With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today: new or seasoned, obsessive or unrequited, heterosexual or homosexual, noble or illicit. Students learn the cultural events that led to a grand flourish of erotic poetry in Greece and Rome during the Archaic and Hellenistic periods, as well as the "Golden Age of Rome." Readers traverse the varied works of over 35 different poets: from the epic interludes of Homer and Vergil to the personal lyrics of Sappho and Catullus, from the playful admonitions of Ovid to the dark elegies of Propertius, from a woman's meditations on romance scribbled on a fragile papyrus in Egypt to anonymous verses about lost love scrawled on a crumbling wall in Pompeii. By introducing the reader to the greatest poets of the ancient world, this compelling collection demonstrates why ancient love poems have stood the test of time and continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Complete with introductions, cultural context, and engaging analysis for each selected work, along with thought-provoking questions to stimulate classroom discussion, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome is an ideal choice for survey courses in classics, world literature, humanities, sexuality, and gender studies.

Author : Louis Untermeyer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Erotic poetry
ISBN : 9780595006540

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An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry by Louis Untermeyer Pdf

The language of love can be beautiful or bawdy, naively simple or boldly salacious, elegantly baroque or course and common梠r, in certain moments, a wild mixture of all of these. Louis Untermeyer has gathered the world抯 greatest erotica in verse, ranging from the Bible to the present day. The most renowned poets of all time are represented in this fresh collection where freedom of range is matched by an equal freedom of speech in writing about sexual love. From Ovid to Swinburne, from Chaucer to E.E. Cummings, from Queen Elizabeth to Emily Dickinson, the poetry burns with mounting emotion and smolders with importunate pleadings, aggravating delays, passionate fulfillment or, alas, painful frustration. Here are the unexplored extremes encompassed by well-loved poets, the outspoken sensuality in the union of love and lust, and the earthy celebration of carnal pleasure. Here in more than six hundred poems, are the infinite variations in the traditional battle of the sexes: the gallant approach, the tentative flirtation, the provocative badinage, the coy denial, the gradually permitted intimacy, the timid or breathless consent, and the finally shared extremity of passion.

Author : Anita Brooks
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525568732

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Erotic Poems and Short Stories by Anita Brooks Pdf

Plunging deeper into the depths of her hidden pleasure. Again and again he purrs, wanting only to please her for the stars in the sky. Get ready for the love experience of your life! Fantasy and eroticism written in descriptive poetry, sexy stories with tantalizing imagination. Irrespective of relationship, gender, or sexual orientation, love is love and it’s one hell of a ride! Drag queens getting ready for an evening on the town. A couple playing out their darkest sexual fantasy. A threesome that’s ready to rock. Brooks doesn’t shy away from the deep eroticism of her subject matter, but she’s here to talk about more than just love: AIDS, sexual violence, male dominance and the cleaver manipulation of love scammers. This book has it all wrapped up in a clear sense of purpose, to bring these issues to the forefront and break down cultural prejudices and bigotry. Brooks’ main focus is erotic tension and to dive deep into the human condition, to find out what it means to be human...the good and the evil.