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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


  
Bride's Story, A graphic series Kaoru Mori WH Stoddard

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 Unknown Friend
  A Christmas Postcard, 1922
VH Franson
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar 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

Finding Serenity
  Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers
  in Joss Whedon's Firefly
Jane Espenson RW Franson
Firefly dvd series 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

Great Mail Robbery, The Clarence Budington Kelland RW Franson

Johann Strauss, Father and Son
  A Century of Light Music
H. E. Jacob RW Franson
June Chris Hutson / Felicia Day RW Franson

Kitchen Romances
  The Constable and the Maid
K Resta

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

Miracle Connie Willis 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

Sarah Churchill and The Rules for Dating RW Franson
Singer Enigma, The Ann Maxwell RW Franson

Why Teenage Girls Love Vampires
  Hayashi's Theory
SK Hayashi
  

  
[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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