The newest installment in Welcome Books' Art & Poetry series, Love's Exquisite Freedom pairs the lyrical grace of Maya Angelou with the exquisite art of Edward Burne-Jones. Angelou's poem of love's transcendant power finds a striking, sensual complement in Burne-Jones, a star of 19th century Britain's Aesthetic movement. Burne-Jones continually examined themes of love, and the psychology of love, while persuasively arguing for the value of art as an object of beauty. In Love's Exquisite Freedom, Burne-Jones' contention that art reveals a "a light better than any light that ever shone" is tempered by Angelou's naturalism and earnestness. The combination is an enchanting, powerful exploration of the redemptive quality of love and the unbidden pleasure of emotion.

Paintings in this book hang in the following museums:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Louvre, Paris, France
British Museum, London, Great Britain
St. Mary's Church, Thornham Magna, Suffolk, Great Britain
Wightwick Manor, Warwickshire, Great Britain
Standen, East Grinstead, West Sussex, Great Britain
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany