Introduction : "Ibsen the romantic" -- "The Land without paradise" -- "Paradise within" : Hedda Gabler and John Gabriel Borkman as types of the romantic "self" -- "Children of Paradise" : Alf, Hedvig and Eyolf as "Conceptions of immortality" -- "Cosmologies of two" : romantic eroticism in Little Eyolf, The Master builder, and When we dead awaken -- "High romantic words " : responsible freedom and tragic joy in The Lady from the Sea and Rosmersholm -- Conclusion : "All of Paradise that we shall know"