Letters of Abelard and Heloise

PREFACE

It is very surprising that the _Letters of Abelard and Heloise_ have not sooner appeared in English, since it is generally allowed, by all who have seen them in other languages, that they are written with the greatest passion of any in this kind which are extant. And it is certain that the _Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier_, which have so long been known and admired among us...