
To poets such as Lewis Carroll, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Joyce, D. Most poets, at one time or another, write their way into the hearts of their chosen partners, but sometimes something slightly more unusual happens: two poets fall in love with each other.

Love poetry is about as old as love itself, from Homer’s vision of Penelope’s steadfastness, to the biblical Song of Solomon, to Shakespeare’s sonnets for his “Dark Lady” (or, some speculate, Dark Lord), to Keats’s love songs for his own depression. Learn how to pair the perfect poem with sweets, drinks, and flora for your partner on Valentine's Day.Įros is often the fuel of the lyric imagination, which chooses to use words, sentences, musical structures of language to re/member the beloved, to enter that inexhaustible source of-not uniquely “carnal”-knowledge which is another person’s body and mind.Īll My Poems Are Love Poems: When Two Poets Fall in Love
