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User Review - baswood - LibraryThingC S Lewis traces the development of love poetry from the celebration of adulterous love by the 12th century Troubadours through to Edmond Spenser's utter refutation and then vindication of married ... Read full review
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User Review - antiquary - LibraryThingInteresting for his comments on individual works, but his overall theory of progress from adulterous to married love as a literary ideal I think mistaken. There are early works that favor married love ... Read full review
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| Title | The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition |
| Author | Clive Staples Lewis |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Jul 25, 2008 |
| Length | 378 pages |
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