Finding Love in a Romantic Age
Never in the history of humanity has romantic love been so celebrated. But what if all the romance on sale this week clouds a basic and vital truth - in a tragic world, love is meant to be something deeper than happiness and the fulfillment of desire.
When I teach poetry, I'm often struck by how unromantic the Romantic poets were. Most of the time their …
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