person
Heloise
also: Heloisen, Heloises
Heloise d'Argenteuil (c. 1100-1164), the learned lover of Abelard and archetype of the woman whose love outlasts its object; Don Juan's women are to 'outlast and outcry' even the Heloises.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §66 Heloises
Heloise, Abelard's lover and the type of the woman whose love survives its object; the women Don Juan leads are to 'outlast and outcry' even the Heloises.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §395 Héloïse
Héloïse (c.1100--1164), whose letters to Abelard after their forced parting are among the first and fiercest of the loving women's laments.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §440 Heloïse
Héloïse (c.1100--1164), whose love-letters to Abelard made her, for Rilke, one of the supreme women who love.