Friday, February 12, 2010

Dear Dainty Delicious Darling: Poets' Love Letters

"I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up," wrote John Keats to Fanny Brawne in one of his many letters to her, considered by some to be among the most beautiful love letters ever written. Get in the mood for Valentine's Day weekend by exploring the love letters of poets, including Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Olson, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, and others.

On the web at: www.poets.org/loveletters