They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.

Several volumes of letters were published after his death, as was Journal to Eliza, a more sentimental than humorous love letter to a woman Sterne was courting during the final years of his life.

He later became involved in a literary debate known as the nature fakers controversy, after John Burroughs published an article in 1903 in the Atlantic Monthly attacking writers of sentimental animal stories.

* William Hill Brown's sentimental epistolatory novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.

A collection of " strangely confidential and sentimental reminiscences ", called Le Livre de la pitié et de la mort, ( The Book of Pity and Death ) was published in 1891.

In the case of Hitchens ' criticisms of Said on his death bed, Hitchens replied, " It's actually rather silly of Alexander to say that ... he's often written counter-obituaries of people who have been overpraised and has chosen precisely the moment when there's a lot of sentimental garbage being published to say, ' come on, this guy wasn't so great!

He attached himself to the Girondists, whose vague deism, sentimental humanitarianism and ardent republicanism he fully shared, and from March to November 1792 he published, at Jean Marie Roland's expense, a bi-weekly journal-affiche, of which the title, La Sentinelle, proclaimed its mission to open all of Europe to the Enlightenment at a time when, after the Habsburg declaration of war on France and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a schism between the king and his subjects had become obvious.

In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, " A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions.

The Sunday Post is a weekly newspaper published in Dundee, Scotland by DC Thomson, and characterised by a ' folksy ' mix of news, sentimental stories and short features.

The latter, a parody of the sentimental and sensual novels of Heinrich Clauren ( the pseudonym of Carl Gottlieb Samuel Heun, 1771 – 1854 ), became in the course of composition, a close imitation of that author's style and was actually published under his name.

The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, homey writing had created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots, when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister during 1893.

In 1854, she published the novel The Lamplighter, a sentimental book which was widely popular and which made its author well-known.

These include an outline of Reicha's system for writing fugues, Über das neue Fugensystem ( published as a foreword to the 1805 edition of 36 fugues ), Sur la musique comme art purement sentimental ( before 1814, literally " On music as a purely emotional art "), Petit traité d ’ harmonie pratique à 2 parties ( c. 1814, a short " practical treatise " on harmony ), a number of articles and the poem An Joseph Haydn, published in the preface to 36 fugues ( which were dedicated to Haydn ).

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is strongly tied to Harriet Beecher Stowe ’ s book Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, published in 1852, in terms of themes ; both were written as sentimental anti-slavery books.

When it was published, New York Times book reviewer Orville Prescott called it " as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches ...

He also contributed regularly to Theatre magazine and wrote sentimental poetry and song lyrics ( including " Oh Promise Me "), which were often published in the magazine Punch by his friend, the editor, F. C. Burnand.

" Love Me Tender " is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music, adapted from the tune of " Aura Lee " ( or " Aura Lea "), a sentimental Civil War ballad.

She had tried the effect of the shawl dance, in imitation of Emma, Lady Hamilton ; she now sought fame in literature, and in 1803, after consulting Chateaubriand and other writers of distinction, published her Valérie, a sentimental romance, of which under a thin veil of anonymity she herself was the heroine.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

In 1998, Charles published No Other Blue, a collection of his poetry, with illustrations by Philippa Drakeford, on diverse personal subjects including prison, his mother's final illness, love, and politics at home and abroad.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

His love of strong tea was legendary — he had Fortnum & Mason's tea brought to him in Catalonia and in 1946 published " A Nice Cup of Tea " on how to make it.

Three years later in Switzerland, Heinrich Hoessli published the first volume of Eros: Die Männerliebe der Griechen (" Eros: The Male-love of the Greeks "), another defence of same-sex love.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

Keel included fifteen different Dowland pieces in his two sets of Elizabethan love songs published in 1909 and 1913, which achieved popularity in their day.

In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel ( winners of the prizes are requested to provide such essays ), Lorenz credits his career to his parents, who " were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals ," and to his childhood encounter with Selma Lagerlof's The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which filled him with a great enthusiasm about wild geese.

A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel casts the Nahua, Malinalli, as one of history's pawns who becomes Malinche ( the novel's title ) a woman " trapped between the Mexican civilization and the invading Spaniards, and unveils a literary view of the legendary love affair ".

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories.

* For Us, The Living ( 1938, published in 2003 ) by Robert A. Heinlein, a futuristic utopian novel explaining practical views on love, freedom, drive, government and economics.

Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".

Story of O (, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 about love, dominance and submission by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage.

In December 1938 Lester del Rey published " Helen O ' Loy " the story of a robot that is so much like a person she falls in love with her creator and becomes his ideal wife.

The next month Ernest and Otto Binder published a short story " I, Robot " featuring a sympathetic robot named Adam Link who was misunderstood and motivated by love and honor.

The promotional copy on the back of Time Enough for Love, the second book featuring Lazarus Long, states that Lazarus was " so in love with time that he became his own ancestor ," but this never happens in any of the published books.

In 1912, Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley, and his romantic obsession with her continued into 1915, when she married Edwin Montagu, a Liberal Cabinet Minister ; a volume of Asquith's letters to Venetia, often written during Cabinet meetings and describing political business in some detail, has been published ; but it is not known whether or not their relationship was sexually consummated.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

Matters become complicated when a news article about Oscar and Peter's homosexual status is published in the Business paper, leaving Oscar in the increasingly frustrating position of having to fend off advances from various gay men while convincing his friends and family that he is simply pretending to be gay ; Amy even sets him up on a date with her ex-boyfriend, football player Kevin Cartwright, but Oscar manages to defuse the situation by saying that he's in love with someone else.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

In 1971, with John Wells, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree.