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

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The forest example is cool, but it is extraordinary that Lewis is here arguing for something resembling self-id on nominalist grounds. It traces the rise and decline of the love allegory as a mainstay of European literature in the late Middle Ages. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. We don't need to endorse the analogical substitutions allegories traffic in to appreciate their stupefying knack at expressing immaterial abstraction.

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Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. If you want to understand every word on the page in those first two chapters you will need to understand something like seven languages as he often quotes without translating.

Of course, this book is intended for academic interest in allegories in the medieval period, of which I am one of them. S. Lewis at his worst: an academic tome written in 1936 about his day job, long before he’d reached his peak as a communicator.

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Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition written by C. These early activities led to Lewis's lifelong attraction to fantasy and mythology, often reflected in his writing. This work opens a world as different to us as the wildest science fiction or fantasy of Lewis and his friend and colleague Tolkien. Lewis has said "in my own reading I always sacrifice critics to the poets, which is unkind to my own trade.I'm afraid my reading of The Allegory of Love sacrificed the poets for the sake of reading more Lewis.

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Lewis directly addressed the differences in his The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, well worth the reader's time and imminently more readable. urn:lcp:allegoryoflove0000csle:epub:c31b4f6b-57dc-44bc-8b4f-ab6bfc697ed9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier allegoryoflove0000csle Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2723h308vk Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5. One thing that Lewis does that I particularly enjoy, though which many readers may get bogged down by, is his interest in describing the character of poems instead of simply what they say about his subject matter.

One of the reasons Spenser is such a great thinker (and this is also one of the reasons people enjoy C. That is not to say, of course, that his conclusions are true, but that he has a good sense of the literature and the ideas and is able to explain them well to the reader. The Allegory of Love, for lovers of medieval literature/poetry and romance allegory, is a must-read.