The Penguin Book of Love Poetry

Stallworthy, Jon ed. The Penguin Book of Love Poetry. First Edition. London, Penguin, 1973. Octavo. 399 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A review from the Times Literary Supplement and a poem by Georg P. Elliott are loosely inserted. Jon (Howie) Stallworthy (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) FBA FRSL was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He was also a Fellow (and was twice Acting President) of Wolfson College, a poet, and a literary critic. From 1977 to 1986, he was the John Wendell Anderson Professor of English at Cornell. Stallworthy wrote a short summary of war poetry in the introductory chapter to the Oxford Book of War Poetry (Edited by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University Press, 1984), as well as editing several anthologies of war poetry and writing a biography of Wilfred Owen. In 2010 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award from the Wilfred Owen Association. In the course of his literary career, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy. (Wikipedia).