Poems Of Friendship (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. Like the Everyman Love Poems and Erotic Poems to which it is a companion the present selection draws on the literature of many periods and languages to illuminate aspects of friendship ranging from social acquaintance through personal devotion to estrangement and antipathy. The tone ranges from comic to elegiac and there is certainly something here for everyone. The volume is divided thmatically into sections What are Friends? The Pleasure of Friendship Good Neibours Social Life Dumb Chums Portraits Poets Together Strangers Absent Friends and Looking Back About the Author Editor's Biography.Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series including Love Poems Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams