This is the book that Carie read from in the movie, Sex and the City, while in bed with Big... and in real life the book didn't exist until moviegoers and fans stormed bookstores looking for it. I love Halloween and get to see all the interesting and fun costumes that the kids wear which is so amazing and awesome. As much as I loved reading about the poet, John Keats, and the reactionary critics he shared with William Hazlitt ( oh the joys of literary criticism), I also loved reading Keats' letters to the great love of his life, Fanny Brawne: The Cranberries” are truly one of my favorite bands, and is a group that should be more widely known, far beyond their three big hits “Dreams,” “Linger," and "Zombie."

The men writing the letters, also not too shabby: from Nathaniel Hawthorne to John Keats and Ludwig Van Beethoven. Most of the stories accompanying the letters are heartbreaking--drastic life decisions made from fleeting love affairs. A few were inspirational, like the journalist, Richard Steele's, who wrote his wife more than four hundred letters before and during their marriage. Though endearing, the letters are sometimes overtly sentimental and even slightly comical. i wish i hadn’t rushed to finish this book, i think it would be best enjoyed if you read a couple everyday To Calpurnia (my wife): “You will not believe what a longing for you posses me. The chief cause of this is my love; and then we have not grown used to be apart. So it comes to pass that I lie awake a great part of the night, thinking of you.” To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu “Madam, there is not a day in which your figure does not appear before me; your conversations return to my thoughts, and every scene, place or occasion where I have enjoyed them are as livelily painted as an imagination equally warm and tender can be capable to represent them…For God’s sake, madam, send to me as often as you can.”

C: Corn

For a few years you may flutter in some frivolous circle. But the time will come when you will sigh for any heart that could be fond and despair of one that can be faithful. [...] then you will recall to your memory the passionate heart that you have forfeited, and the genius you have betrayed.

When I think of the thousand endearing caresses that have passed between us, I do not wonder at the strong attachment that draws me to you, but I am sorry for my own want of power to please. I hear the wind sigh through the lattice and keep repeating over and over to myself two lines of Lord Byron's tragedy- I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel. Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, John Adams, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent van Gogh, Dylan Thomas, Voltaire, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart How have you passed this month? Who have you smil'd with? [...] For myself I have been a Martyr the whole time [...] You may have altered - if you have not - if you still behave in dancing rooms and other societies as I have seen you - I do not want to live - if you have done so I wish this coming night may be my last.

I: Ice-cream

I want practice in ill-treatment of the female sex,–I did not observe Lyell had any compunction; I hope to harden my conscience in time: few husbands seem to find it difficult to effect this. I really recommend this book, not only for the strong emotions that are transmitted through the letters but also as an act of leisure and meditation. I must say it was a truly enlightening book that was instantly placing me into a relaxed and pace-full state of mind. as the song reaches its climax. That’s the only reason needed to justify this song’s placement on this list. There were also some truly touching, sweet, lovely intimate exchanges, such as Schiller's trembling hopefulness that his beloved may return his feelings and his selfless and genuinely respectful explanation as to why he hadn't dared reveal his heart sooner:

Most letters weren't "romantic" enough, at most it was a flirtatious correspondence, also I had a problem with the male dominant nature of these "supervising" figures which doesn't sit well with my feminist thinking. Also most of the letters were preludes or committed during adultery as most men and the women they corresponded with were married to other people or at least with other people and lot of them didn't even end up together. So, despite being a lover of love letters, these weren't what I hoped for. The letters are a mixture of witty and petulant and illicit and mundane, which proves to lessen the fairytale image often conjured of ancient love and heightens the realness of it. It enhances the often overlooked fact that these men lived. It brings a kinship between the men of the past and those of the present despite, no, because of, their various forms of correspondence and how they chose to articulate the desires of their souls.Six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. Every day we live together adds to my confidence, that we can never any more wish to be separated than that we can ever imagine a regret that we were ever joined. A great read I must say. A collection of powerful and sentimental letters that lets you enter different times and spaces, from luxury upper-classes in London to horrifying landfills dominated by battles. This is a collection of love letters but the history about the love affairs informing the letters, are even more interesting than the letters themselves. Adieu—my love—my only one. Do not catch them in the air—those 2999½ little kisses from me which are flying about, waiting for someone to snap them up. Listen, I want to whisper something in your ear…” This book is a collection of letters from (you guessed it) great men from throughout history to their love, or in some cases loves plural. Each letter is preceded by a short description of who the great man and the object/s of his affection were and a different side to these well-known names is revealed.