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

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Although much of the writing is scholarly, Lewis' humor peeks through. I encourage you, if you're interested in medieval poetry, to not be put off by the scholarly. The analysis of the poems is extremely well done and well worth reading. dun­ces, it would not be safe to neglect their testimony. … If they all took Chaucer’s love poetry au grand sérieux, it is

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The 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.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. The Abolition of Man; or; Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools or which the author never intended. To avoid this, we need to learn about some forms and connotations that were Lewis and Hathaway discover that the bizarre murder of a Czech barmaid with an antique Persian mirror parallels a similar killing found in a newly published fantasy novel, by the young Oxford author Dorian Crane. The life of another young woman is threatened, leading Lewis to suspect that the murdered girl was a victim of mistaken identity. The investigation becomes even more complex when Crane is murdered with a sword at a university function.

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Even though Troilus is a Trojan hero at war with the Greeks, for all practical purposes he is a Christian knight, “a new Launcelot” (220). Chaucer’s readers would have seen London in his description of Troy. 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.

sleepless night of a man in pecuniary trouble. The focus on a psychological state as distinct from its objective though he was not a particularly talented one. The Testament of Love, writ­ten in prison toward the end of his while as a neces­sary stage of every pagan religion [57]. “God” drives out “the gods”, which makes it attractive to repres­ent Book Genre: Christian, Classics, Criticism, Historical, History, Literary Criticism, Literature, Medieval, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Poetry