Love Please!

From Chaucer to Emily Bronte, John Donne to John Betjeman, Christina Rossetti to Stevie Smith - here is a collection of poems which is sensuous, passionate and erotic. They have been taken from the whole range of verse in English, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Anthony Briggs, Professor of Russian at Birmingham University, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University, is a well-known writer and broadcaster on Russian cultural affairs and European poetry. His recent translation of War and Peace was critically acclaimed. Among his many publications are six editions in the Everyman's Poetry series.