Symposium
Plato · Ancient · Philosophy, dialogue
Subject guide
Love
Explore 58 works associated with Love in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · Victorian · Novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · Harlem Renaissance · Novel / folklore
Fragments
Sappho · Ancient · Lyric poetry
Sic et Non
Abelard, Peter · Medieval · Philosophy / autobiography
The Story of My Misfortunes
Abelard, Peter · Medieval · Philosophy / autobiography
The Lais of Marie de France
Marie de France · Medieval · Poetry / romance
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Chrétien de Troyes · Medieval · Romance
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
Chrétien de Troyes · Medieval · Romance
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Chrétien de Troyes · Medieval · Romance
Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
Convivio
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
De Monarchia
Dante Alighieri · Medieval · Poetry / prose
Canzoniere
Petrarch · Renaissance · Poetry / letters
Letters on Familiar Matters
Petrarch · Renaissance · Poetry / letters
The Book of the Duchess
Geoffrey Chaucer · Medieval · Poetry
The House of Fame
Geoffrey Chaucer · Medieval · Poetry
Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer · Medieval · Poetry
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich · Medieval · Mysticism / theology
Platonic Theology
Marsilio Ficino · Renaissance · Philosophy
Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto · Renaissance · Epic poetry
The Amours
Pierre de Ronsard · Renaissance · Poetry
Richard III
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
Sonnets
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Drama / poetry
The Dog in the Manger
Lope de Vega · Golden Age · Drama
Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega · Golden Age · Drama
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
Songs and Sonnets
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
Holy Sonnets
John Donne · Early Modern · Poetry / prose
The Princess of Clèves
Madame de Lafayette · Early Modern · Novel
Selected Poems
Andrew Marvell · Early Modern · Poetry
Eugene Onegin
Aleksandr Pushkin · 19th Century · Poetry / fiction
Boris Godunov
Aleksandr Pushkin · 19th Century · Poetry / fiction
The Queen of Spades
Aleksandr Pushkin · 19th Century · Poetry / fiction
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Victorian · Poetry
Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Victorian · Poetry
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
Residence on Earth
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston · Harlem Renaissance · Novel / folklore
Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston · Harlem Renaissance · Novel / folklore
Canto General
Pablo Neruda · Modern / Latin American · Poetry
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
Belle du Seigneur
Albert Cohen · Modern · Novel
The Sovereignty of Good
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch · Postwar · Novel / philosophy
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · Contemporary · Novel / essays
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · Contemporary · Novel / essays
The Art of Love
Ovid · Ancient · Poetry
Heroides
Ovid · Ancient · Poetry
Tristia
Ovid · Ancient · Poetry
The Poems of Catullus
Catullus · Ancient · Lyric poetry