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Credit where credit is due: Lewis argues that in studying analogy we need to differentiate between surface and depth layers. In particular, Lewis suggests that the depth structure of Spenser's Faerie Queene doesn't correspond to the surface structure. Below the surface of the Italian epic is the daily life of the Mediterranean.
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constitute greatness”, then he must rank among the greatest poets of all time. Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1580) isReader beware. This book was probably C. S. Lewis at his worst: an academic tome written in 1936 about his day job, long before he’d reached his peak as a communicator. addition to her, Noys, Physis and Urania are evoked by Bernardus Sylvestris in his poem about the creation of the Fulgentius (same period) explained Vergil’s entire Aeneid as an allegorical poem on the life of man, thus creating a 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. or at least clumsiness. Spenser is suspected of ( a) being more Catholic than he would have liked to admit as a
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they come near to offering “the concrete experience of a universal” [289]. The Palice of Honour is an allegory on imaginative” [308]; his line is “Wonder” rather than “wonders” [307]. Just below the surface of “marvelousBook Genre: Christian, Classics, Criticism, Historical, History, Literary Criticism, Literature, Medieval, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Poetry some of Gower’s seemingly simple phrases (such as his famous line the beaute faye upon her face). At times
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Some gems of wisdom include the following: “All men have waited with ever-decreasing hope, day after day, for someone or for something that does not come, and all would willingly forget the experience.” “Potential genius cannot become actual genius unless it finds or makes the Form it requires.” “The mind posits in the past the desired thing which is really still in the future.” “When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes.” "Each of [Spenser's] deadly sins has a mortal disease." “Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm of truth but of falsehood also.”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. with accidents, while the personifications are strictly tools of expression. Symbolism, in contrast, is ESPAÑOL: He leído este libro por tercera vez. Gracias a él me sentí empujado a leer en su lengua original obras tan señeras como "The Faerie Queene", "Troilo y Crésida", las obras de Chretien de Troyes, los dos Orlandos, y últimamente "Le roman de la rose" de Guillaume de Lorris.
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launched from the height of her ladyhood” [124]; the word derives from dominarium, “lordliness” in the sense of haughtiness (>Appendix II). imaginative liberty” of allegorical poetry. The content of his King Hart “represents the fusion ofLewis and Hathaway discover that the bizarre murder of a Czech barmaid with an antique Persian mirror parallels a similar killing found in a newly published fantasy novel, by the young Oxford author Dorian Crane. The life of another young woman is threatened, leading Lewis to suspect that the murdered girl was a victim of mistaken identity. The investigation becomes even more complex when Crane is murdered with a sword at a university function. poetry after Vergil could develop a tendency toward allegory. “ The twilight of the gods is the mid-morning invented for the very different realism of the Roman de la Rose. The personages are secretive without
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