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==Literary depictions== [[Shakespeare's sonnets]] have been described as a "Poetics for Infatuation"; as being dominated by one theme, and "that theme is infatuation, its initiation, cultivation, and history, together with its peaks of triumph and devastation"βa lengthy exploration of the condition of being "subject to the appropriate disorders that belong to our infatuation ... the condition of infatuation".<ref>R. P. Blackmur, J. T Jones, ''Outsider at the Heart of Things'' (1989) p. 242, 246.</ref> In [[Ivan Turgenev]]'s ''[[First Love (novella)|First Love]]'', a novella from 1860, 16-year-old Woldemar becomes rapturously infatuated with Zinaida, the beautiful daughter of a princess who lives next to his house. Even though she does spend time with him, his intense infatuation is unrequited and he sinks into depression.
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