A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most sensual of human pleasures. Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that most raw and yet most beautiful of human instincts — erotic love. This anthology includes verse by Herrick, Marlowe, Jonson, Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, Yeats, Cummings and, from our own time, John Betjeman. All aspects of erotic love are to be found in these poems — from the bawdy to the sensuous and tender.
Classic Erotic Verse
Robert Browning, Hafiz, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Charles Baudelaire, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Emily Dickinson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Christina Rossetti, e.e. cummings, John Dryden, John Betjeman, Christopher Marlowe, John Keats, John Donne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Classic Erotic Verse
Narrarated by: Edward De Souza, Matthew Marsh, David Timson, Benjamin Soames, Stella Gonet
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