Love and its Critics : From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden

• Main Author: Michael Bryson (auth)
• Other Authors: Arpi Movsesian (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Open Book Publishers
• Subjects: love; critical reception; Western canon; hermeneutics; fin'amor; troubadour poets; poetry
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticis...