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The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
In the second chapter, Lewis discusses the medieval evolution of the allegorical tradition in such writers as Bernard Silvestris and Alain de Lille. 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 ...
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The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1994; expanded edition of the 1964 Poems book; includes Spirits in Bondage) C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and Exile (ed. A.T. Reyes, 2011; includes the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's Aeneid , presented in parallel with the Latin text, and accompanied by synopses of ...
That foundation can make a slow-burn stronger than a spontaneous spark because the oxytocin whirlwind of a love-at-first-sight romance “isn’t always stamina for a [long-term] relationship ...
He also wrote The Four Loves, which rhetorically explains four categories of love: friendship, eros, affection, and charity. [103] In 2009, a partial draft was discovered of Language and Human Nature, which Lewis had begun co-writing with J. R. R. Tolkien, but which was never completed. [104]
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis.It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius.This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he believed that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. [1]
The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis published in the United States in 1960. The title essay is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The volume also contains a follow-up to Lewis' 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast."