Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart

Love is fundamental to our being, growth, development, and happiness, and it gives us hope for what lies beyond. It is complex and has its seasons and ambiguities, certainties, and passions. Poets have reflected on this truth with insight and acute observation, revealing that love has its seasons and ambiguities, certainties, and passions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2019
Publisher: SPCK Publishing

Love is a fundamental aspect of our being, growth, development, and happiness. It enables us to make meaning of our lives in the world and gives us hope for what lies beyond. It is humdrum and ordinary yet mysterious beyond words. Life offers many different kinds of love, and poets have reflected on this truth with insight and acute observation. Janet Morley explores love up and down the generations, grown-up love, and love between God and the human heart, revealing what our hearts eventually discern - love has its seasons and ambiguities, its certainties and passions. Love is never simple at all. W. H. Auden, Rupert Brooke, Charles Causley, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christine De Luca, Imtiaz Dharker, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Fainlight, U. A. Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Hughes, John of the Cross, Jane Kenyon, D. H. Lawrence, Edwin Morgan, Sinead Morrissey, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, Siegfried Sassoon, E. J. Scovell, William Shakespeare, R. S. Thomas, Rosemary Tonks, Andrew Waterhouse, Charles Wesley, Rowan Williams, and Thomas Wyatt have all written about love.

Weight: 334g
Dimension: 137 x 204 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780281078929