Download or read book The Allegory of Love written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.