![]() ![]() The relationship between the two-poets and critics-is one of the central concerns of this book.Ģ The story this book tells follows two paths: it is a history of love, a story told through poetry and its often adversarial relationship to the laws and customs of its times and places. 1 At the same time, love has always had its passionate defenders, though these have more often tended to be poets-the Ovids, Shakespeares, and Donnes-than critics of poetry. ![]() Love has never lacked for those who try to tame it for “higher” purposes, or those who would argue that “the worst evils have been committed in the name of love”. They range far and wide throughout history, from Plato and the Neoplatonists, to the Rabbinic and Christian interpreters of the Song of Songs, from the clerics behind the savage Albigensian Crusade, to the seventeenth-century English Puritan author William Prynne, who never met a joy he failed to condemn. In the Name of Love : Romantic Ideology and Its Victims (Oxf (.)ġ Love has always had its critics. 1 Aharon Ben-Zeʼev and Ruhama Goussinsky.
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