During
this talk, Robert Bly gives a delicate and lively view of the fantastic
flowering of feeling in the 12th century Provence. The feeling thought,
developed of Arabic, Gnostic, and Albigensian sources, blossoms as love
poetry famous at that time.
Bly distinguishes in this talk between the literal mode, the psychological mode and the mythological mode, and he locates the “Amor” or ecstatic love in the latter. That mythological mode of feeling led to Sufism among the Arabs.
When we hear the Provencal poetry he recites toward the end we recognize the terrible loss we suffered when these traditions were uprooted and destroyed. Robert Bly Bio and links
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