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

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The chapters following discuss the poems from the Romance of the Rose, Chaucer, Gower, some of the lesser poets, and Spencer’s The Faerie Queene. Allegory need not reproduce this kinship system, but it would be more honest to admit that the cuckoldry isn't an accidental byproduct, it's the reason why Platonizing symbolism is employed. 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). With the sixth season of wrapping up right around the same time as the fifth anniversary of its series premiere, fans of the series might be interested in checking out other shows with a similar vibe.

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His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. The life of another young woman is threatened, leading Lewis to suspect that the murdered girl was a victim of mistaken identity.He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. The major area where he sticks close to them is in his analysis of the Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. I was unfamiliar with most of the authors discussed and nearly all of their works, but hearing Lewis analyze this branch of literature was fascinating nonetheless.

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Perhaps these obstacles should do for this old man what obstacles did for me as a boy: present a greater challenge to overcome. However, the payoff is modern readers’ greater understanding of a time and place which served as the background for many contemporary fictional fantasies.The allegorical romances Lewis reviews were encyclopedic works which were both practical guides to wooing as well as cosmologies of nature as it was then understood, which was pretty poor. Some gems of wisdom include the following: “All men have waited with ever-decreasing hope, day after day, for someone or for something that does not come, and all would willingly forget the experience. Outdated now, but still one of those things that you probably should read if you're doing anything about courtly love. It traces the rise and decline of the love allegory as a mainstay of European literature in the late Middle Ages.

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After reading it for the second time, I feel like I missed so much in the first reading but maybe only my memory is weak and lack of notes didn't let me read more in the depth. Occasionally, though, I like to challenge myself with a worthy book that requires tenacity and determination to finish.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). I will probably have to get into it after this sample of what his specialty in literature really was. My association with Lewis prior to reading this book was limited to "he's the lion/witch guy, right? Someday I'll read it again, in the spirit of a child learning new multi-syllable words from the conversation of adults.