Historia Amoris: A History of Love Ancient and ModernCosimo, Inc., 1.9.2006 - 292 sivua Not so much a chronicle of love as a reverie on eros throughout history and literature and mythology, this extraordinary 1906 volume is an all but lost work of Edgar Saltus, an unheralded innovator of creative nonfiction and one of the most astonishingly stylish writers of the early 20th century. With the wit of Wilde, the gloominess of Poe, and a decadence uniquely his own, Saltus delves into humanity's relationship with itself, from the barbarism of sex in prehistory to the sundering of modesty from romance in 18th-century Europe. Redolent of dark poetry, Saltus's prose is riveting and seductive-this is a masterpiece awaiting rediscovery by adventurous 21st-century readers.American writer EDGAR EVERTSON SALTUS (1855-1921) is also the author of The Pomps of Satan, Imperial Purple, and The Perfume of Eros. |
Sisältö
PART | 123 |
The Cloister and the Heart | 125 |
The Pursuivants of Love | 138 |
The Parliaments of Joy | 150 |
The Doctors of the Gay Science | 164 |
The Apotheosis | 177 |
Bluebeard | 191 |
The Renaissance | 198 |
Love in the Seventeenth Century | 213 |
Love in the Eighteenth Century | 237 |
The Law of Attraction | 251 |
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Abailard æsthetic Alcibiades Amor amours Antony Aphrodite Aristophanes Aspasia Athens Beatrice beauty became beloved betrothed Byzance Cæsar called Catullus charm chivalry Cleopatra cloister coamantis court Dante daughter death declared divine divorce dream ensued epoch Eros eyes fair France genius Gilles de Retz girls gods grace Greece heart Hellenic Hesiod hetaira Homer honor Hôtel de Rambouillet human husband ideal Ishtar Islâm killed king kiss knight lady latter laughed Lesbos less lord Louis lover Marguerite Marguerite of France marriage married matron Meanwhile mediæval Moors never Octavius ODALISQUES otherwise Pandemos passed perfect perfume perhaps Pericles Petrarch Phaon Pheidias Plato pleasure poet poetry Provence queen quietism regarded Renaissance Rhodopis Roman Rome Sappho Satan Schopenhauer sentiment SHEPHERD SHULAMITE slaves Socrates SOLOMON song soul sovereign story temple thee theory Thereafter things thou thought throne Tiffauges tion to-day troubadour Venus verse wife woman women worship young
Suositut otteet
Sivu 22 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Sivu 19 - I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Sivu 23 - I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him ; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Sivu 17 - Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.