- Hardcover: 64 pages
- Publisher: Knopf; 13th edition (Jun 27 1949)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0394404580
- ISBN-13: 978-0394404585
- Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 1.5 x 23.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #880,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching honesty or with rhapsody so involving unconscious pathos. Those who seek to drag any honest writing through the gutters of their own minds will do the same with this. Those who are not afraid of the strange miracle of life will understand this brave verse."
-- William Rose Benet
"I certainly do not find these poems pornographic. They are direct and free, quick with life and warm with remembered passion. The imagery is sensuous and exact, but no more graphic -- or pornographic -- than the images in the Song of Songs. It is remarkable how Benton has varied the erotic theme and the overtones of physical love."
-- Louis Untermeyer
"Walter Benton's verse seems to me full of real poetic feeling. He has sometimes splendid images -- 'like God striking a match across the cathedral ceiling -- and other expressions of unusual beauty; and his emotional quality is direct and intense."
-- Van Wyck Brooks
-- William Rose Benet
"I certainly do not find these poems pornographic. They are direct and free, quick with life and warm with remembered passion. The imagery is sensuous and exact, but no more graphic -- or pornographic -- than the images in the Song of Songs. It is remarkable how Benton has varied the erotic theme and the overtones of physical love."
-- Louis Untermeyer
"Walter Benton's verse seems to me full of real poetic feeling. He has sometimes splendid images -- 'like God striking a match across the cathedral ceiling -- and other expressions of unusual beauty; and his emotional quality is direct and intense."
-- Van Wyck Brooks
Book Description
Born in Austria of Russian parents, Walter Benton lived most of his life in the United States. After working on a farm, in a steel mill, as a window washer, as a salesman, and at various other jobs, he entered Ohio University in 1931, and in due course was graduated. He then spent five years as a social investigator in New York. During the second World War he served in the United States Army, being commissioned a lieutenant of the Signal Corps in the autumn of 1942 and later being promoted to a captaincy. After the war he returned to New York and devoted his time to writing.
This Is My Beloved, the remarkable diary in verse that has become one of the most popular books of poetry, was his first published volume, though his work was already familiar to readers of Poetry, Fantasy, the Yale Review, and the New Republic. Never a Greater Need, a second selection of his poems, was issued in 1948. Walter Benton died in 1976.
This Is My Beloved, the remarkable diary in verse that has become one of the most popular books of poetry, was his first published volume, though his work was already familiar to readers of Poetry, Fantasy, the Yale Review, and the New Republic. Never a Greater Need, a second selection of his poems, was issued in 1948. Walter Benton died in 1976.
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Reaching into my heart,
By George Bradford (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Is My Beloved (Hardcover)
Seldom have I ran from the truth. This book-these words made me run and weep that I had never experienced such completely transforming love. I so aprreciate the opportunity to live in someone eles's joy knowing that the pain that he describes will only be his. This is the greatest writing of passion and emotions to ever be rendered on paper and every one who would love should go by here first. "... to be loved to sleep." The appropriateness of the thought beads sweat on my forehead.
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UNFORGETTABLE,
By Maxine Pieson (New Brighton, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Is My Beloved (Hardcover)
This book took my breath away-I gave it to my fiancee as a birthday gift in August 2000- he carried it with him- everywhere even on the plane-on business trips to Europe-he said that until he fell in love-he would have never understood it-but if you are madly in love-it is so moving it is almost hurtful. Sometimes it is so moving- he had to stop reading-one just read a few pages at a time. He died suddenly on February 18, 2000- and this has great meaning for me.
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Love's Soul Expression,
By JEANNIE (Utah) - See all my reviews
This review is from: This Is My Beloved (Hardcover)
This Is My Beloved IS my favorite book of poetry. Walter expresses love so completely. The true depth of love when it is real, honest and free. I absolutely love this book. I feel his words. This book has touched my heart. I've read it a few times and it can still bring tears to my eyes and evoke passion within me. I want to be loved in such a way. So deeply. I highly recommend it....especially to all hopeless romantics.
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