The Allegory of Love

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/07/2013
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781107659438
ISBN10: 1107659434
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh