Love and its Critics : From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden.
- 103th ed.
- 1 online resource (578 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources and Languages -- 1. Love and Authority: Love Poetry and its Critics -- I. The Poetry of Love -- II. Love's Nemesis: Demands for Obedience -- III. Love's Critics: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Authoritarian Approach to Criticism -- IV. The Critics: Poetry Is About Poetry -- V. The Critics: The Author Is Dead (or Merely Irrelevant) -- 2. Channeled, Reformulated, and Controlled: Love Poetry from the Song of Songs to Aeneas and Dido -- I. Love Poetry and the Critics who Allegorize: The Song of Songs -- II. Love Poetry and the Critics who Reduce: Ovid's Amores and Ars Amatoria -- III. Love or Obedience in Virgil: Aeneas and Dido -- IV. Love or Obedience in Ovid: Aeneas, Dido, and the Critics who Dismiss -- 3. Love and its Absences in Late Latin and Greek Poetry -- I. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Latin -- II. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Greek -- 4. The Troubadours and Fin'amor: Love, Choice, and the Individual -- I. Why "Courtly Love" Is Not Love -- II. The Troubadours and their Critics -- III. The Troubadours and Love -- 5. Fin'amor Castrated: Abelard, Heloise, and the Critics who Deny -- 6. The Albigensian Crusade and the Death of Fin'amor in Medieval French and English Poetry -- I. The Death of Fin'amor: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath -- II. Post-Fin'amor French Poetry: The Roman de la Rose -- III. Post-Fin'amor English Romance: Love of God and Country in Havelok the Dane and King Horn -- IV. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Courtly Love" in Chaucer-the Knight and the Miller -- V. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Auctoritee" in Chaucer-the Wife of Bath -- 7. The Ladder of Love in Italian Poetry and Prose, and the Reactions of the Sixteenth-Century Sonneteers -- I. The Platonic Ladder of Love. II. Post-Fin'amor Italian Poetry: The Sicilian School to Dante and Petrarch -- III. Post-Fin'amor Italian Prose: Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) -- IV. The Sixteenth-Century: Post-Fin'amor Transitions in Petrarchan-Influenced Poetry -- 8. Shakespeare: The Return of Fin'amor -- I. The Value of the Individual in the Sonnets -- II. Shakespeare's Plays: Children as Property -- III. Love as Resistance: Silvia and Hermia -- IV. Love as Resistance: Juliet and the Critics who Disdain -- 9. Love and its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature -- I. Carpe Diem in Life and Marriage: John Donne and the Critics who Distance -- II. The Lyricist of Carpe Diem: Robert Herrick and the Critics who Distort -- 10. Paradise Lost: Love in Eden, and the Critics who Obey -- Epilogue. Belonging to Poetry: A Reparative Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.