SUTHERLAND, A. & ANDERSON, P. (eds) - Eros : An anthology of Friendship - (Hardcover on Wrapper)

Thick black book - The spine has a 3cm tear - Wrapper has loss to top and bottom of spine - From the Blurb >>> "This is a collection of the beautiful, curious and amusing in both verse and prose often taken from the world's finest writers - whose subject is any kind of comradeship, friendship or fellow-feeling which seems deepened by the mysterious quality of Eros. - The reader will find here both the grave 'amor' of Cicero and the disreputable lay-about amours of Petronius. The Homeric heroes, the passionate purity of the Socratic ideal - and of Shakespeare and Montaigne - take their place side by side with the graceful flirtations of the Muse Puerilis, the bitter jibes of Catullus and Juvenal and the sensuousness of Persians and Moors. The monasteries of the Middle Ages are seen in relation to pious affections and to the poetry of the Court of Charlemagne until, in the modern sections, the material proves too rich to be represented as fully as one might wish, for here there must be passages from Huysmas, Gide and Proust, from George and Mann, from Whitman and Hart Crane and from our own contemporaries."