The allegory of love

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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.

subjects: Courtly love,  Comparative literature,  History and criticism,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Medieval Literature,  Courtly love in literature,  English poetry,  Allegory,  Modern Literature,  Themes, motives,  History,  Literatura Inglesa (Historia E Critica),  Middle English,  Literature, medieval, history and criticism,  Literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries,  Comparative literature, themes, motives,  Amour courtois,  Littérature médiévale,  Poésie d'amour anglaise,  Poésie anglaise,  Histoire et critique,  Littérature comparée,  Thèmes, motifs,  English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500,  Poetry as Topic,  Love,  Poetry

Times: 15th and 16th centuries,  Middle English, 1100-1500,  To 1500