Come Live With Me and Be My Love/a Pageant of Renaissance Poetry & Painting

by Pamela Norris (Editor)

English love poems by Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Jonson, Shakespeare, Lovelace, and Donne are accompanied by Italian Renaissance paintings

Genres: Poetry, Art

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was so disappointed reading the first half of this book that I put it down. The poems were hard to understand. The language was archaic and love isn't an easy subject. There's a fine collection of paintings and luckily the second half was easier, the language not as archaic and I was relieved to finish it and will keep it to read from time to time because it was a gift from dad.

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's face it, cheap gift books are at best two star affairs. The excellence of some of the poems and the art raise this one a bit, but just a bit. The texts are taken from public domain collections and so do not reflect advanced standards of editing. The images are competently reproduced, but these paintings need and deserve better. The selection of both is a bit uneven.

Yep, when all is said and done, this is still just a gift book that makes superior toilet reading.

[Monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice artwork, nice thoughts...a Christmas gift from dad.