Suggestions please, DUers! I would like your picks for my seminar "The Poetry of Love." [View All]

[CTyankee]

Please post your suggestions. I will be holding the Study Group for the Institute for Learning In Retirement here in New Haven during April and May. My thinking now is to break it into 6 sessions: The Power of Love, Love and Passion, Love and Loss, Love and Treachery, 2 more TBD (perhaps one on Love and Transcendence).

I want to cover many different cultures and eras, altho English and American poetry now predominate. Any you can suggest would be very welcome!

Some of the poets I'm including are Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, Donne, Lovelace, Dickinson, Yeats, Lorca, Stevens, Auden, Frost, Kay Ryan, whoever wrote The Song of Solomon.

I need more women poets and poets of color...

Also, if you could suggest any essays on the subject of love poetry in general it would help.

Thank you...as always, DU!