Love in the Arts

Literature

Early Romances

Arthurian Romance

"Culhwch and Olwen"

The Invention of Love

Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love

Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

Middle English Lyrics

Chaucer

The Book of the Duchess

The Parliament of Fowls

Troilus and Criseyde

Renaissance Poetry

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Complaint[s]"

Renaissance Sonnets

E.O. Poems

A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres

A Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576)

A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578)

Sidney, Astrophil and Stella

A Handefull of Pleasant Delites (1584)

Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
Amoretti
Epithalamion

Sir Walter Raleigh

Daniel

Drayton

England's Parnassus (1600)

England's Helicon (1600)

Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

As You Like It

Twelfth Night

[Romeus and Juliet]

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor

Charlotte Bronté, Jane Eyre

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Colette, Chéri
 The Last of Chéri

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Violet Winspear, Time of the Temptress