The Allegory of Love

The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval tradition?the rise of both the sentiment called Courtly Love and of the allegorical method?from eleventh-century Languedoc through sixteenth-century England. C. S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Usk.