The Allegory of Love: A Study In Medieval Tradition (Canto Classics)

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is an allegory but not a “radical” one, since “its signifi­ca­cio, if extracted, would prove to be a state and not a

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This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. You may do whatever you like with this book, but mostly we hope you will read it. some of Gower’s seemingly simple phrases (such as his famous line the beaute faye upon her face). At times constitute greatness”, then he must rank among the greatest poets of all time. Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1580) isfragment commonly known as Book VII, on the legend of Constancy, consists of only two Cantos which appear to be the core Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-11-16 13:58:31 Boxid IA158306 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor addition to her, Noys, Physis and Urania are evoked by Ber­nar­dus Sylvestris in his poem about the creation of the

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The book is ornamented with quotations from poems in many languages, including Classical and Medieval Latin, Middle English, and Old French. The piquant English translations of many of these are Lewis's own work.

Similar to the decline of the old gods, there is a parallel of the movement of mythology to allegory. There is a reverse movement from deity to hypostasis to decoration (Lewis 94). In other words, as he later says, the gods have “died into allegory” (98). the troubadours, but the much lesser known poets from the early-12th-century School of Char­tres. They were “Pla­tonic, story about love with­out needing allegory: “ Alle­gory has taught him how to dispense with alle­gory” [178]. The text is structured as a survey of the major works in the Christian cannon of allegory. Since there isn't a single thread running through the work, I'm afraid my commentary will comprise little more than scattered observations. Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the “Courtly Love” tradition. Fans of C.S. Lewis’s writings. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C.S. Lewis – eBook Details

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Ovid, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Ariosto, Spenser... move a bit like this through some specimens of literature to understand the tradition he is describing and extolling.Another theory I propose is that avid readers of Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien need look no further than works like this to find philosophic underpinnings of Narnia and Middle Earth. The former certainly reflects the lessons of courtly love and honor Lewis explores in Allegory, and the latter is founded on Tolkien’s studies of Anglo-Saxon and Old English, such as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell. discernible reason beyond literary convention. An omnia vanitas passage at the end seems a merely mechanical echo We cannot speak, perhaps we can hardly think, of an 'inner conflict' without a metaphor; and every metaphor is an allegory in little." (p. 60)