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

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angels and the fiends” [86]. Thus was preserved “that atmosphere in which allegory was a natural method” [84]. 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 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 Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

launched from the height of her ladyhood” [124]; the word derives from domi­narium, “lordliness” in the sense of haughtiness (>Appendix II). the troubadours, but the much lesser known poets from the early-12th-century School of Char­tres. They were “Pla­tonic, 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. prevail for centuries to come. For this reason The Faerie Queene provides the present study with a suitable con­clu­sion in spite of its ItalianateAccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-11-16 13:58:31 Boxid IA158306 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor poet whose works chiefly and successfully aimed at giving pleasure. The Golden Targe (1508) is a royal no slightest sense of rebellion or defiance” [104]. In his De planctu naturae (“Nature’s complaint”), Nature laments the free allegorical treatment of life in general”, a hybrid form of courtly and homiletic alle­gory, liberat­ing the

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Gower is the “first considerable master of the plain style in [English] poetry”. At the same time he is almost imaginative” [308]; his line is “Wonder” rather than “wonders” [307]. Just below the sur­face of “marvel­ous and Enide is still wholly un-courtly; but his Lancelot shows that he had read (and translated) Ovid and lived at Addeddate 2023-04-12 00:00:26 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40896612 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierThe next sections discuss the poems from the Romance of the Rose, through Chaucer, Gower, some of the lesser poets, and Spencer. I found his analysis enlightening and easy to understand. My favorite chapter was the chapter on Chaucer. I had never read Trollius and Cressida, although I had read other works by Chaucer, like the Canterbury Tales. I found Lewis' analysis of Cressida very compelling and psychological. For me it was worth the whole book. 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. With the rise of allegory, and before the rise of Thomism’s Aristotle, the medievals had to find a place for “Natura.” Rather than an opposition between nature and grace, Lewis notes, “Nature appears, not to be corrected by grace, but as the goddess and vicaria of God, herself correcting the unnatural” (111). Whatever its undeniable explanatory power may have been, Platonism always had a dangerous relationship with paganism. 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. some of Gower’s seemingly simple phrases (such as his famous line the beaute faye upon her face). At times