From Me to You
About this book
U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey write: 'Wordsworth speaks of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. This seems an apt description of these love poems. They are not important resonant pieces of writing: they simply happened when one of us felt like writing to the other, quite often when one of us was away from home. Some of them coincided with Valentine's Days or birthdays, but that was more a matter of good luck than foresight. Quakers, rightly, maintain that Christmas Day is only one important day of all the 365 important days of the year. It's the same with love poems: they are appropriate at any time, and can be written, incidentally, to dogs, cats, etc., as well as humans. No room for Cupid. [...] The pleasant thing about writing such poems, apart from having someone to write them for, is that there is no particular restriction as to subject matter. In Christmas Poems, UA felt the draughty awareness of the diminishing cast of subjects, from donkey to Christmas tree. With love, on the other hand, the sky's the limit.'
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Table of contents
- 20.VIII.2003
- THE ABSENT-MINDED LOVER'S APOLOGY
- ADJECTIVES FOR U.A
- ALL I CAN SAY (14.II.2004)
- 'AS WELL AS THE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE...?'
- AT AVERHAM
- AT THE FERRY
- ATLAS
- CHAPLAINCY FELL WALK
- CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
- COMING TO
- CONFESSIO AMANTIS
- THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
- DEAR TRUE LOVE
- DEAR VALENTINE
- DIFFICILIOR LECTIO
- DIGLIS LOCK
- ELEGY FOR A CAT
- ENVOY
- FOR LEO ON 14.ii.2000
- FOR UA, IN CORNWALL
- GOING UNDER
- HEREBY
- HOMING IN
- IDYLL
- LOOKING FOR JORVIK
- MATRIMONIAL POEM
- THE MINERAL LOVER
- MY LION IS A UNICORN
- 23 NOVEMBER
- PER PRO
- PIANO DUET
- THE POET'S COMPANION
- POETRY READING: FOR LEO
- QUEUEING OUTSIDE THE JEU DE PAUME IN LIGHT RAIN
- REFLECTION (1965)
- SKIN-LOOSE
- SONG
- THE MOMENT: 19-20 AUGUST 1932
- TO TO
- ULLAPOOL
- WHERE'ER I WALK
- WITH YOU
- WORKSHOP'S END
- YOU
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