Flora Unveiled by Taiz Lincoln;Taiz Lee;

Author:Taiz, Lincoln;Taiz, Lee;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Oh, God, let me live long enough

To grope beneath her cloak! …

Let other gabbers brag about their love.

We’ve got the meat and the knife.

The God to whom William prays, however, is clearly not the Christian God of the medieval church. In his poem “Very Happily I Begin to Love,” William’s description of his lady combines Venus’s power of love with the miraculous healing powers of Mary:

Every joy must lower itself

and all royalty obey

my lady, because of her kindness

and of her sweet pleasant visage;

and he will live a hundred times longer

who can partake of her love.

Because of her joy can the sick turn healthy

and because of her displeasure can a healthy man die

and a wise man turn mad …

The juxtaposition of erotic and spiritual elements characterizes much of the literature of courtly love and distinguishes it from classical love poetry.

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