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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature C. S. Lewis

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature By C. S. Lewis

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis


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This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures and hard-to-find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth-century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Summary

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers such as Dante (The Divine Comedy), Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur), Spenser (The Faerie Queene) and Milton (Comus). Lewis's insightful yet accessible writing will captivate anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance literature.

Table of Contents

Preface Walter Hooper; 1. De Audiendis Poetis; 2. The genesis of a medieval book; 3. Imagination and thought in the Middle Ages; 4. Dante's similes; 5. Imagery in the last eleven cantos of Dante's Comedy; 6. Dante's statius; 7. The Morte d'Arthur; 8. Tasso; 9. Edmund Spenser, 1552-99; 10. On reading The Faerie Queene; 11. Neoplatonism in the poetry of Spenser; 12. Spenser's cruel Cupid; 13. Genius and genius; 14. A note on Comus; Additional editorial notes; Index.

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NLS9781107658929
9781107658929
1107658926
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2013-11-07
208
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