Love Poems

This selection gathers Robert Graves's shorter poems about love, jealousy, parting, and the figure of the muse, drawn from work written across the middle of the twentieth century. Early pieces treat attachment as sudden and ruinous; later ones, many written after he settled in Mallorca, address a particular beloved in a plainer, more incantatory voice. Recurring images include the moon, the sea, mirrors, gifts, and the sense that true love is a single exacting service. The poems are lyrics and songs rather than narrative sequences. The book is a thematic gathering, not a story, and it shows Graves returning to one subject through changing decades of style.

Quarter bound in red cloth, pale grey paper boards patterned in blue and red. Pale grey endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket, no slipcase.