Books about love

Veeky Forums seems to know very much about nihilistic and pessimistic books but, what about books about love? Which are the best ones?

Neurobiology textbook

The Age of Innocence is the best option.

Bump

lmao na but edgy brah, nice

Libro de Buen Amor, by a Spanish priest

Vita nuova di Dante Alighieri

r u a gril?

The Odyssey is largely about love. It's a guy going through all kinds of insanity just to get back to his waifu.

Plato's erotic dialogues - Symposium, Phaedrus, Phaedo.

Lucretius' book IV I think. It's an ancient atomist's materialistic account of love and sex, but it's really really good. Always gives me a boner. No joke.

Ovid, anything by Ovid of course. Metamorphoses has 53 rape scenes. What's up with that?

Sappho's fragments.

The gospel of John is all about love. Augustine's confessions.

rape used to be a big part of life before the world went to shit

>Ovid, anything by Ovid of course. Metamorphoses has 53 rape scenes.

oh i recall i quoted a rape scene from there to some people on Veeky Forums
they didn't estimate
but w/e, even 'im the cat' is too deep for them, they can't udnerstand literature

>implying books about love shouldn't be pessimistic or nihilistic

sometimes you need a break

Not all love ends badly, despite what Veeky Forums or contemporary litfic would tell you.

Middlemarch is a great work featuring a good bit of romance, although one of the main endings is pretty bleak.

The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

95%+ of all literary classics are about love

Read Xenophon's Oikonomikos, in particular the bit with Ischomachus telling Socrates about his perfect wife

I really enjoyed Mishima's “The Sound of Waves”. Adorable in its own way.

Aren't half of them just vague "rapere"?

Stendhal wrote a book entitled Love. Supposedly, it was his favorite out of his own works

Sappho

Love shook my heart
like the wind on the mountain
rushing over the oak trees

No Lolita? lel