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The Allegory of Love Information
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 The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936), by C. S. Lewis, is an influential exploration of the allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the first chapter, Lewis traces the development of the idea of...



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Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
07/12/2006: 828 words, approx. 3 pages Grace, Depravity, and Grandeur The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street Through July 16 A powerful contradiction verging...
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"Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love & Exploration in Renaissance Venice.".(Exhibition notes)
06/01/2006: 1,300 words, approx. 4 pages "Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love & Exploration in Renaissance Venice" The Frick Collection, New York. April 11, 2006-July 16, 2006 Initiated over a decade ago by its former Director Samuel Sachs, and continued by his successor, Anne Poulet, the Frick Collection has sponsored...




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Critical Essay by Ruth Z. Temple
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 Mr. C. S. Lewis [in The Allegory of Love] was moved to attack the personal heresy in modern criticism. The first essay in the elegant small book is his spirited, and to some extent salutary, denunciation of contemporary critics and readers who regard poetry as a means of contact with the poet's personality. So shocking does this seem to Mr. Lewis, that he has boldly taken up the extreme negative position: "… when we read poetry as poetry should be read, we have before us no representati...
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Critical Essay by Albert Guerard, Jr.
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 Too frequently the professional historian is not a good scholar because he wholly ignores esthetic considerations. Mr. C. S. Lewis, in his study of allegory and courtly love ["The Allegory of Love"], shows himself to be even more a man of letters than a literary historian. But as a literary historian he suffers from the defect of his qualities. Time and again he deserts his real subject, the history of allegory as a form and courtly love as a sentiment, for long excursions into pure esthetic c...


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