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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

door C. S. Lewis

Andere auteurs: Walter Hooper (Redacteur)

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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.… (meer)
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These studies have been taken from lecture notes or books begun and abandoned by Lewis and were probably never meant for publication. They have been collected and edited by Walter Hooper and were published as a book of essays in 1966 three years after Lewis's death.

The essays are certainly more than just scrapings from the bottom of a barrel, they are mostly well written, stand up well enough on their own and provide plenty of thoughtful material. The first three provide an excellent introduction on how to approach a medieval text and how to view the medieval world. The next three will be of interest for those reading, or familiar with Dante's Divine Comedy and the final bunch covers Edmund Spenser and his Faerie Queene. There are also short essays on Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Tasso.

I found some gems in the first three essays on medieval text and was hooked on reading the very first paragraph of the first essay: De Audiendis Poetis (How to study Poetry):

"There are more ways than one of reading old books. A choice between two of them is well expressed by Mr Spiers when he denounces as 'discouraging' that before the modern reader can properly appreciate a medieval poem he must first have somehow put himself back into the age when it was composed. For thus he will be seeking not 'what the poem means', but 'what it once meant' and will become concerned less with reading and responding to a poem than with reading outside it

That anything that takes us outside the poem and leaves us there is regrettable, I fully agree. But we may have to go outside it in order that we may come inside it again, better equipped."

In the essay Genesis of a Medieval Book Lewis discusses authorship and points to the differences of the medieval approach to our own today. Lewis says Medieval writers were engaged in a sort of 'touching up' exercise; why invent new stories when there were plenty of excellent old stories available. He was concerned with presenting the story to a medieval audience and if this involved embellishment or emasculation then so be it. He was not concerned with accuracy or in many instances with the modern idea of authorship. Lewis's essay on Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages attempts to present to us a medieval persons view of the world. In the excellent The Discarded Image he explains this at some length but here the shorter version is no less effective.

In Morte d'Arthur Lewis is concerned with exploring Malory's view of the world especially his ideas on nobility which is a key theme in the work. The essays on Dante's The Divine Comedy follows some close reading of the text and will be of interest to those people reading or familiar with the poem. The essays on Spenser are a 'mixed bag' There are good essays on Tasso's influence, the life of Spenser and how to approach The Faerie Queene, however essays on Neo-Platonism and the role of Genius in Spenser's allegory are dense and scholarly.

Not an essential book and it would be only of limited interest to the casual reader. However with my interest in medieval literature and Edmund Spenser there was more than enough to keep me interested ( )
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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.

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