Famous tales of love and lovers
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Famous tales of love and lovers
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* Baucis and Philemon, classic Greek couple famed for constancy in old age
* Odysseus and Penelope: faithful couple reunited after decades of travel and travail
* Rama and Sita: a world-conquering hero defeats demons to save his beloved
* Victoria and Albert: after nine children, devotion was unblinking Tragic consequences
* Bonnie and Clyde: killers obsessed with each other
* Heloise and Abelard: a tutor castrated for falling in love with his pupil
* Hero and Leander: a Greek youth drowned in the sea while swimming to meet beloved
* Lancelot and Guinevere: a knight could never be happy in adulterous love of his queen
* Orpheus and Eurydice: despite venturing into the Underworld, the musician could not save his beloved
* Tristan and Isolde: a misread signal doomed these lovers to suicide Legendary affairs of the heart
* Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) 19th-century Russia
* Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) Imperial Rome
* Divine Comedy (Dante) 13th-century Italy
* Elective Affinities (Goethe) 18th-century Germany
* Madame Bovary (Flaubert) 19th-century France
* Madam Butterfly (Puccini) 20th-century Japan
* Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 15th-century Verona
* Wuthering Heights (Emily Bront ) Victorian England
The romantic muse
Almost all arias in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti
Sonnets (to Laura) by Petrarch, 14th-century France and Italy
Catullus: famous Roman love poet
Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin dances elegantly
I’m a Fool to Want You: Billie Holiday sings the blues
I’ve Got You Under My Skin: Cole Porter tingles
I Will Always Love You: Whitney Houston in all-time bestseller
John Keats: romantic - and Romantic - poet
Kangding Ballad: most famous love song in China today and for past 50 years
Love Me Tender: Elvis Presley struts his stuff
WB Yeats: Irish romantic poet
Sappho:famous classical Greek lesbian poet
Whales: don’t miss the record of their singing
Thomas Wyatt: Elizabethan love poet
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