Romance at Troynovant :
sweetenings of dating & romantic love,
good & bad relationships, marriage;
listed by Title
Note that many fine romance novels, love stories, romantic poetry, films, or stories with romantic interest and the like are not listed here unless the work or the review flirts with general ideas about romance as a literary genre, the romantic impulse in men and women, the nature of love or sex or marriage, and so on.
The waltz era gave us a great burst of romantic joy in its most classical musical expression. If the waltz perhaps is not quite the birth of gaiety from the spirit of music, certainly the waltz embodies, in its most beautiful form, the whirl of classical gaiety on the romantic dance floor.
from Robert W. Franson's review of
Johann Strauss, Father and Son
A Century of Light Music
by H. E. Jacob
| Accidental Tryst | Natasha Boyd | RW Franson |
| Adventures of Sally, The | P. G. Wodehouse | RW Franson |
| Big Chill, The [Review-Essay] |
Lawrence Kasdan / William Hurt, Kevin Kline | RW Franson |
| Big Trouble in Little China | Carpenter / Russell | RW Franson |
| Bride's Story, A [graphic series] |
Kaoru Mori | WH Stoddard |
| Christie Johnstone | Charles Reade | RW Franson |
| Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey / Barbara Stanwyck | RW Franson |
| Consent versus Chastity in Sexual Ethics | WH Stoddard | |
| Dance Cards Dating Ahead at a Ball |
RW Franson | |
| Dancing Socially at a Formal Ball | RW Franson | |
| Dear Santa | Joseph Priestley / Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones, Emma Duke | JM Franson |
| Dear Unknown Friend Postcard, 21 December 1922 |
VH Franson | |
| Do You Wanna Date My Avatar | Jed Whedon / Felicia Day; The Guild | RW Franson |
| Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth, The |
Roger Zelazny | RW Franson |
| Dreamland | Clarence Budington Kelland | RW Franson |
| Fifty Shades Fifty Shades of Grey Fifty Shades Darker Fifty Shades Freed |
E L James | RW Franson |
| Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly |
Jane Espenson | RW Franson |
| Firefly dvd series [Review-Essay] |
Joss Whedon | RW Franson, DH Franson |
| First Love | Henry Koster / Deanna Durbin | RW Franson, JM Franson |
| Fountainhead, The [an Aristotelian view] |
Ayn Rand | WH Stoddard |
| Ghost Goes West, The | Rene Clair / Robert Donat | RW Franson |
| Great Mail Robbery, The | Clarence Budington Kelland | RW Franson |
| Hands Across the Table | Mitchell Leisen / Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray | RW Franson |
| How to Govern a Kingdom | Suzie Garfield | RW Franson |
| It Happened on Fifth Avenue | Roy Del Ruth / Victor Moore, Gale Storm | RW Franson |
| It Started with Eve | Henry Koster / Deanna Durbin, Laughton, Cummings | RW Franson |
| Johann Strauss, Father and Son A Century of Light Music |
H. E. Jacob | RW Franson |
| Jolly Halloween: I wonder! Postcard, 31 October 1923 |
VH Franson | |
| June | Chris Hutson / Felicia Day | RW Franson |
| Just Go With It | Dennis Dugan / Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler | RW Franson |
| Khaled A Tale of Arabia |
F. Marion Crawford | RW Franson |
| Kitchen Romances The Constable and the Maid |
K Resta | |
| Lady on a Train | Charles David / Deanna Durbin | RW Franson |
| Lalage's Lovers | George A. Birmingham | RW Franson |
| Laodicean, A or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day. |
Thomas Hardy | RW Franson |
| Liberty for Women Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-first Century |
Wendy McElroy | RW Franson |
| Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly Was Dominque's rape in The Fountainhead actually rape? Why ... or why not? |
W McElroy | |
| Love Letters | William Dieterle / Jennifer Jones / Joseph Cotten | RW Franson |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | RW Franson |
| Marriage is Lava! Who We Are, Together |
SE Jordan | |
| Miracle | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Never Underestimate | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | WH Stoddard |
| Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina |
Paul R. Gregory | PT Smith |
| Princess Comes Across, The | Howard / Lombard / MacMurray | RW Franson |
| Pygmalion [film] | Shaw / Asquith / Howard / Hiller | RW Franson |
| Reckless Love | Elizabeth Lowell | RW Franson |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | RW Franson |
| Rules, The Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right |
Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider |
RW Franson |
| Ruritania's Successors Fictional Kingdoms in Modern Romance [Quick List] |
RW Franson | |
| Sarah Churchill and The Rules for Dating | RW Franson | |
| Shadow Gate, The | Margaret Ball | RW Franson |
| Singer Enigma, The | Ann Maxwell | RW Franson |
| 1632 | Eric Flint | RW Franson |
| Sue Barton, Nurse series | Helen Dore Boylston | WH Stoddard |
| Too Many Women | Rex Stout | RW Franson |
| Venus Plus X | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub / Sandra Bullock | RW Franson |
| Why Teenage Girls Love Vampires Hayashi's Theory |
SK Hayashi | |
| Your First Time [Barack Obama campaign ad, 2012] |
Lena Dunham | RW Franson |
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| To Wilfred R. Franson Charleston Army Air Field, South Carolina Letter, 8 March 1944 |
VH Franson | |
[The King of Navarre's park.]
Biron:
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain,
But with the motion of all elements
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power
Above their functions and their offices.It adds a precious seeing to the eye —
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound
When the suspicious head of theft is stopped.Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste.
For valour, is not love a Hercules,
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost, 4.3.301-315
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