and Enide is still wholly un-courtly; but his Lancelot shows that he had read (and translated) Ovid and lived at This is a scholarly work, and not intended for a layman like me; I comprehend maybe a tenth of it. That's my failing and not the author's.

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allegorical tradition but never got beyond the young Chaucer. His allegories serve as a rather unsuitablemean” [271]. For all its un­pleas­antness, the poem served to bring “more of our experi­ence” into the realm of Reader beware. This book was probably C. 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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imaginative” [308]; his line is “Wonder” rather than “wonders” [307]. Just below the sur­face of “marvel­ous 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 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. to sexual passion concerned the sus­pen­sion of intellectual activity ( ligamentum rationis). In the ro­mantic or which the author never intended. To avoid this, we need to learn about some forms and connotations that werefragment commonly known as Book VII, on the legend of Constancy, consists of only two Cantos which appear to be the core persons, and the result may be awkward. The “machinery” of the Roman – the successive scenes of action: addition to her, Noys, Physis and Urania are evoked by Ber­nar­dus Sylvestris in his poem about the creation of the