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French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and afflct us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a granddaughter (Hugo). On the way there's the ¿rst yes from lips we love (Verlaine), a sky full of stars re¿ected fatally in Cleopatra's eyes (Heredia), Iying awake waiting for your lover (Valéry), and the defeated toys of dead children (Gautier). The sel...

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This volume contains poems covering a very broad spectrum of subjects, from having a shower with women aged 20 when you're not, to how horses express admiration for each other, and from a biography of Pompey's wife, to a long poem in couplets about losing boots in Arcadia.

It is quite bizarre that a culture so besotted with food and all things relating to the stomach and the senses should have left but one cookery book. The curious, therefore, must resort to other sources of inspiration for information about the Romans at table. Not least among these sources is the poetry of men such as Horace, Martial, Juvenal, Catullus, Ovid, Livy and Seneca, here translated with grace and aplomb by the Latin scholar and poet ...