The Metaphysics of Love

The Metaphysics of Love

Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton

by Albert James Smith

349 pages· 1985· ISBN 9780521259088
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This book is an important study of European and Renaissance love poetry from Dante to Milton and how each poet in this study explores the conflict between sensual and spiritual love. The author presents a wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.

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