31.   In subsequent centuries in the West, romantic love has triumphed as a sort of private, personal mystique linked with a high cultural value.

32.   In this account, passion is juxtaposed with reason, romantic love with domesticity, madness with control.

33.   In the ancient world, romantic love would seem to have been virtually unknown, and rarely celebrated.

34.   Instead of making the song an expansive position paper on romantic love, he becomes wistful bordering on tremulous.

35.   Is romantic love illusion?

36.   It also suggests that romantic love itself is a mystery that requires distance for the imagination to construct and sustain what is essentially an illusion.

37.   It also says much about Victorian England, its romantic love of the past and its confidence in its own bright future.

38.   It is to deny the reality of romantic love, to pretend we have never experienced that singular anxiety and euphoria more intoxicating than any narcotic.

39.   Its analysis of the need and despair that underpin romantic love is radically unsentimental and stunning.

40.   It originated in China, where in ancient times it was highly prized as an emblem of immortality and romantic love.