In biological terms, heterosexual love makes whole.

In the 20th century, serious poetry that celebrates happy heterosexual love is very hard to achieve.

As if the heterosexual love story is so underrepresented in film, TV, music and on stage.

In these poems, the extremes are not of hierarchical gender positions, as found with heterosexual love, but feeling.

On principle, there are few poems about happy heterosexual love, the delights of nature, or delight at all.

Also, for Lawrence another man, a friend, was a defense against the apocalypse-or-nothing of contemporary heterosexual love.

Price does write about erotic love, both heterosexual and homosexual, because, he says: "It's the most powerful single force in human life.

But the word romance has for most people the immediate association of love and, in the main, of heterosexual love.

It states indirectly that love, homosexual or heterosexual, is simply love.