Spenser's Images of Life

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death.

C. S. Lewis (Author), Alastair Fowler (With)

9781107691131, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 November 2013

156 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 0.8 cm, 0.24 kg

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

Preface
Introduction
1. The false Cupid
2. Antitypes to the false Cupid
3. Belphoebe, Amoret and the Garden of Adonis
4. The image of evil
5. Mutability
6. The image of good
7. Britomart's dream
8. Faceless knights
9. The misery of Florimell
10. The story of Arthur
Index
Plates.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literary studies: general [DSB]