An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry

The language of love can be beautiful or bawdy, naively simple or boldly salacious, elegantly baroque or course and common or, in certain moments, a wild mixture of all of these. In An Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry, Louis Untermeyer has gathered the world's greatest erotica in verse, ranging from the Bible to the present day.

The most renowned poets of all time are represented in this fresh collection where freedom of range is matched by an equal freedom of speech in writing about se...