Erotic love poems from biblical time.
The Song of Songs, often referred to as the Song of Solomon, is one of the great love poems of all time. For over 2,000 years it has been a souce of inspiration for poets and lovers for its passionate depiction of love as a cosmic force. In this lyrical new translation, an eminent scholar of anccent Semitic languages and a distinguished poet and translator restore the sensuousness of the original with scrupulous faithfulness to the Hebrew text and a magically fresh sense of the beauty and spirit of the poem. (from the box/cover)
