Studies in medieval and Renaissance literature
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Studies in medieval and Renaissance literature
(Canto)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Canto ed
- : pbk.
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Originally published: 1966
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-186) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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