Historia Amoris. Saltus Edgar

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       Edgar Saltus

      Historia Amoris

      A History of Love, Ancient and Modern

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066238407

Table of Contents

       PART I

       I

       SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS

       II

       THE CURTAINS OF SOLOMON

       THE SONGS OF SONGS.

       III

       APHRODITE URANIA

       IV

       SAPPHO

       V

       THE AGE OF ASPASIA

       VI

       THE BANQUET

       VII

       ROMA-AMOR

       VIII

       ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

       IX

       THE IMPERIAL ORGY

       X

       FINIS AMORIS

       HISTORIA AMORIS

       PART II

       I

       THE CLOISTER AND THE HEART

       II

       THE PURSUIVANTS OF LOVE

       III

       THE PARLIAMENTS OF JOY

       IV

       THE DOCTORS OF THE GAY SCIENCE

       V

       THE APOTHEOSIS

       VI

       BLUEBEARD

       VII

       THE RENAISSANCE

       VIII

       LOVE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

       IX

       LOVE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

       X

       THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

       INDEX

PART I

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I

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SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS

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      The first created thing was light. Then life came, then death. In between was fear. But not love. Love was absent. In Eden there was none. Adam and Eve emerged there adult. The phases of the delicate fever which others in paradise since have experienced, left them unaffected. Instead of the reluctances and attractions, the hesitancies and aspirations, the preliminary and common conflagrations which are the beginnings, as they are also the sacraments, of love, abruptly they were one. They were married before they were mated.

      The union, entirely allegoric—a Persian conceit—differed, otherwise, only in the poetry of the accessories from that which elsewhere actually occurred.

      Primitive man was necessarily speechless, probably simian, and certainly hideous. Women, if possible more hideous still, were joined