Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) Review

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(More customer reviews)Daisy Goodwin has chosen poems to represent various stages of romantic love. Many of the poems are warm and cozy while others speak of distance and disdain. In modern poetry books it is often difficult to find poems that rhyme, but here there are quite a few familiar poems that you may have read while at school. You may recognize "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. While there are some old favorites there are also some new adventures in less familiar poems.
The poems range from cute to complex and from serious to humorous. At the start of each section there is a short note that gives an introduction to the poems to follow. There are some interesting tidbits that make reading the poems more enjoyable. Some of the poets include: Robert Browning, Nina Bourne, Wendy Cope, John Donne, W. H. Auden, Rosemary Tonks, Elizabeth Bishop, William Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold.
Daisy Goodwin suggests that you only read a few poems at a time but most are so short it doesn't take much time to read them all. After all, how else will you find the poem that speaks directly to you? With that said, I enjoyed the first half of the poems more than the last half which had the theme of love lost.
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Forget chocolate, exotic lingerie, or marriage counselors -- the only props you'll ever need, whether you are in love or out of it, are the poems in this book. There are verses here to console you when the phone doesn't ring or the divorce papers have been signed, and poems that celebrate the joy of being in love, from the first kiss to walking down the aisle (for the second time). These essential poems, which include never-before-anthologized works, will tell you the truth about love.

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