Love Letters Of Great Men - Vol. 1

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In Lamia (1819) Keats revived the couplet form, long thought to be dead, in a gorgeous, romantic story. On the whole, if my husband sat down and sent me a letter about how perfect I am and how much he loves me and how happy I have made him, I would take his temperature and then a blood sample to find out how he got possessed by a demon/Napoleon. And oh my goodness I absolutely adore it; reading the love letters of world-famous legends, from Beethoven to Napoleon!

Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert). B. White – also known as Andy White – writing that “Andy and Katharine have been married for forty years, and in that time they have been separated so rarely that I find it impossible to think of one without the other. The anxiety shown about our Loves in your last note is an immense pleasure to me; however, you must not suffer such speculations to molest you and more; nor will I any more believe you can have the least pique against me. Most letters weren't "romantic" enough, at most it was a flirtatious correspondence, also I had a problem with the male dominant nature of these "supervising" figures which doesn't sit well with my feminist thinking. I discovered him when I was at university and became obsessed with everything about him: his wit, his style, his talent and his life.

In the 1790s Goethe contributed to Friedrich von Schiller´s journal Die Horen, published Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and continued his writings on the ideals of arts and literature in his own journal, Propyläen. Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved.

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.Yesterday and this morning I have been haunted with a sweet vision-- "I have seen you the whole time in your shepherdess dress. This is a collection of love letters but the history about the love affairs informing the letters, are even more interesting than the letters themselves. Though Tolstoy believed no woman could love him, six years later he married his friend’s sister, nineteen year old Sofia Andreyevna Behrs. Wilde tried to fight back with a libel suit as Douglas was sullying his name in public, but it was to no avail.