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"Eroticism" Quotes from Famous Books
... that over-intensify of spirit and sense which was not quite wholesome in Rossetti, but which manifested itself in Swinburne in a morbid eroticism. The first series of "Poems and Ballads" was reprinted in America as "Laus Veneris." The name-poem was a version of the Tannhaeuser legend, a powerful but sultry study of animal passion, and it set the key of the whole volume. ... — A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers |
Words linked to "Eroticism" : lubricity, eros, amorousness, prurience, sexual desire, amativeness, concupiscence, erotism, pruriency, sexual arousal, sexiness, physical attraction |
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