At its most blissful, romantic love is a passionate flame- that allows us to transcend ourselves. Even love that ends unhappily can leave us liberated, more deeply insightful, transformed. Dreams of Love celebrates love-exploring its pleasures and pain' its place in the life cycle, the gender differences in love, and love that endures. Filled with illuminating references drawn from Auden and Shakespeare from the movies of Bogart and Dietrich' from best-selling contemporary novels, Dreams of Love-makes it beautifully clear that love is not a neurotic condition, or an ailment peculiar to women it is a powerful, creative force inherent in all of us.