It wasn't until the 18th century that love gained credibility as a reason for marriage.
The Troilus, Chaucer's single most ambitious poem, is a moving story of love gained and betrayed set against the background of the Trojan War.
By turns mythical and earthy, the novel takes in children lost and found, love gained and broken, and hypocrisy and prejudice ever present.
They could be musically sophisticated but they're not tutored: they learnt by playing together and singing about love lost, love gained, hopes for the future... simple stuff.
Q. Are there any songs that you feel address our present history in the making? A. Abbey Lincoln, the jazz singer, writes songs that are more socially conscious and depart from the usual themes of love gained, love lost.
Through Bernadene Mann, a costumer and seamstress in "American Gigolo" and a wardrober for "Eyes of Laura Mars" and also the mother of her then boyfriend, Ms. Love gained entry to the wardrobe department of Paramount.
The West End is the land that time and feminism forgot, and The Graduate is its calling card, an appallingly conservative, thoroughly tedious male fantasy of lust sated and love gained.
Schumann, much more than Schubert, was a real literary man (his father was an author and bookseller), and he caught the elusive magic of Heine's poems, in which a delicate sense of irony provides context to the aching emotions of love gained and lost.
