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He taught as a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford for nearly thirty years, and later was the first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Using this position, he argued that there was no such thing as an English renaissance. Much of his scholarly work concentrated on the later Middle Ages, especially its use of allegoryAn allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein "to speak in public") is a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than and in ad. His The Allegory of Love ( 1936Events January-February January 15 The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 20 Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of th) helped reinvigorate the serious study of late medieval narratives like the Roman de la RoseThe Roman de la Rose is a late medieval French work of fiction in allegorical dream form. It was written in two stages: the first, by Guillaume de Lorris circa 1230, describes the attempts of a courtier to woo his beloved. This part of the story is set in. Lewis wrote a preface to John MiltonJohn Milton ( December 9, 1608— November 8, 1674) was an English poet, most famous for his blank verse epic Paradise Lost''. His father, John Milton Sr. was a well-off scrivener, and his grandfather a wealthy landowner in Oxfordshire who, hewing to the ol's poem Paradise LostFor the UK Goth metal band, see Paradise Lost (band . Paradise Lost (published 1667) is an epic poem, originally in 10 books, later revised in 12, of blank verse by the 17th century English poet John Milton. It narrates the Christian story of the Fall of which is still one of the more important critical responses to that work. His last academic publication, The Discarded Image, an Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature ( 1964Events January January 1 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. January 5 In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Ort), is an excellent summary of the medieval world view, the "discarded image" of the cosmosFor other uses of the word, see cosmos (disambiguation The cosmos is the universe, especially when thought of as an orderly or harmonious system. I doubt the accuracy of what appears below; see the discussion page. Sometimes the term 'cosmos' is considere in his title.
Lewis was a prolific writer and a member of the literary discussion society The Inklings with his close friends J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield.