The Allegory of Love

• Feb 12, 2016
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Released in 1936, The Allegory of Love is an influential exploration of the allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. C. S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and …

• Feb 19, 2015
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The Allegory of Love is a delightful and influential exploration of the allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, tracing the development of the idea of courtly love and its impact on today’s ideas about love. The book is also ornamented with quotations from poems in …