The allegory of love
Subtitle: a study in medieval tradition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Courtly love; Allegory; Comparative literature; Themes, motives; English poetry; History and criticism
Description: Book Description: Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as able and enabling 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.
Notes: "First published 1936; Reprinted 1938 (with corrections)."