The parallel discussion of love poetry will have me rereading the Latin elegists next time I teach them. Lewis' attempt here is to show how the idea of love changed from pre-Courtly Love through post-Spenser and, for the most part, he does a good job.

The remaining chapters, drawing on the points made in the first two, examine the use of allegory and personification in the depiction of love in a selection of poetic works, beginning with the Roman de la Rose. He recommended that modern readers intersperse an old book with a modern book in their reading patterns.

Lewis begins by introducing and reinforcing the idea that "the romantic" is that which unites the conscious and unconscious mind. Tracing some of the threads of allegory and courtly love through medieval history to the Renaissance.

One of the many suspects, Jem Wishart, looked quite familiar but I couldn't quite place him - I just looked up the actor on the IMDB, and Wishart was played by Adrian Lukis, who played Wickham in what is commonly known in my world as the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice.Akin to an extended essay on the value of reading such books, The Allegory of Love demonstrates the importance of reading any old book in general, but particularly those in the tradition extending from Chretien de Troyes to Edmund Spenser. Colin is the creator of Inspector Morse which this series is a spin-off of, a consultant on Lewis and always slips into one scene in each episode.

Inspektor Lewis se účastní křtu knihy mladého autora fantastické literatury Doriana Cranea, jehož matku Ginny mu Innocentová dohazuje.Gracias a él me sentí empujado a leer en su lengua original obras tan señeras como "The Faerie Queene", "Troilo y Crésida", las obras de Chretien de Troyes, los dos Orlandos, y últimamente "Le roman de la rose" de Guillaume de Lorris.