Teach Me Love: Instruction From the Renaissance Poets
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ISBN: 145051779X / Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2010
A book to convince you that the great poets of the past speak more wisdom about love and marriage th...
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A book to convince you that the great poets of the past speak more wisdom about love and marriage than anyone writing today. Christian love without any Puritan undertow, love closer to the Romans than to the Victorians, love still represented by Eros - that's what Spenser and Milton and Herrick show you. See it and you're on the way to deeper and deeper insights into both Christianity and love. Treats inhibition, animality, spirituality, the higher eroticism, seduction, fornication, guilt, the double standard, purity, male chastity, cynicism, idealism, gender equality, spontaneity, anonymity, and the "zipless fuck." Goes into courtly love, the concept of the soul, the vocabulary of sin, same-sex marriage, post coital depression (PCD), the Playboy philosophy, and YMCA culture. Exposes the "missionary position" slander, defines "the Christian lover." Gives advice on how to rise above culture and your own DNA. All from points in the poems. Addressed to young people.
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