Love seems a galactic-sized subject.
And yet many have tried. Perhaps the most popular attempts are in the form of songs and poems. The least popular attempts are in the form of stuffy essays. An Oxford University teacher nevertheless established himself as an expert on love in 1936 with his profound analysis of the history of romantic love in a fat book called The Allegory of Love . The scholar, only 38 and a bachelor, was lauded by critics in Britain and America.