It is an academic book written at a popular level, so understand that. Lewis has a monograph out there on the Elizabethans that is more serious and therefore harder to find and expensive. I will probably have to get into it after this sample of what his specialty in literature really was. The forest example is cool, but it is extraordinary that Lewis is here arguing for something resembling self-id on nominalist grounds. If a traditionalist Christian like Lewis can recognize trans women in 1936, the contemporary Church has no excuse for its continued betrayal of trans folks. poetry after Vergil could develop a tendency toward allegory. “ The twilight of the gods is the mid-morning Chaucer we find the same subject matter [as in the Roman’s radical allegory], that of chivalrous love; but the 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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addition to her, Noys, Physis and Urania are evoked by Ber­nar­dus Sylvestris in his poem about the creation of the Book Genre: Christian, Classics, Criticism, Historical, History, Literary Criticism, Literature, Medieval, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Poetry discernible reason beyond literary convention. An omnia vanitas passage at the end seems a merely mechanical echo The allegory of love has expanded my approach to poetry and literature in general. Lewis begins by introducing and reinforcing the idea that "the romantic" is that which unites the conscious and unconscious mind. From this idea, Lewis introduces the two prime romantic structures: allegory, and symbolism. Allegory is the structure for representing what is immaterial (emotions, virtues, vices, etc.) in picturable terms. Symbolism, particularly religious symbolism, is an inversion of allegory that seeks to find the deeper realities that underlay the visible. the troubadours, but the much lesser known poets from the early-12th-century School of Char­tres. They were “Pla­tonic,sleepless night of a man in pecuniary trouble. The focus on a psychological state as distinct from its objective Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-11-16 13:58:31 Boxid IA158306 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor Gower’s success as a story-teller is that he is better at evoking action and move­ment than people and urn:lcp:allegoryoflovest00lewi:epub:5750a07a-88b7-454c-af09-006bbdea14e3 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier allegoryoflovest00lewi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bk2nr4f Lccn 68001027 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition royal couple as convention would have it. The goddess Venus is the mother of the god Cupid, who appears

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out of alle­gory and sets them moving in a concrete story” [179]. The personages in the concrete story are Allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general. It is of the very nature of thought and language to represent what is immaterial in picturable terms." (p. 44) One must approach any criticism of Lewis’s style with fear and trembling. In terms of literary grace, he is the master and we are the mere peons. With that said, this book sometimes suffers from organization. He begins with a fascinating suggestion that courtly love poetry was a celebration of adultery. Perhaps it was. From there he moves to a persuasive, if not entirely related, discussion of the fall of the gods. This fall is important, for it allowed later thinkers to speak of a universe that was neither pagan nor ordinary. In any case, the point was not to glorify paganism. The pagan gods were a heuristic device.

We end with Edmund Spenser, the most underrated, yet easily one of the best poets. Like other critics of Spenser, Lewis notes where Spenser copied the Italians. Unlike these critics, though, Lewis does not fault Spenser for it. The problem is not that the Italians are good and Spenser is mediocre. Rather, they are strong in different ways. The Italians tell a better story, yet Spenser is a deeper and more profound writer. fragment commonly known as Book VII, on the legend of Constancy, consists of only two Cantos which appear to be the core