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The quest for love.

The author turns to the exploration of the relationship between the growth of a sense of reality and the capacity to love. He believes firmly in the civilizing influence of creative art on society, and attempts to show how Chaucer and Shakespeare transcended human imperfection and created a vision o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holbrook, David, 1923-2011
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University, University of Alabama Press [1965]
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. Love in literature. English literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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