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- Title: Prince Caspian and Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (Critical Essay)
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 192 KB
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EVEN a casual glance at C. S. Lewis's personal writings--his diaries, his autobiography, and his private correspondence, particularly that to his lifelong friend Arthur Greeves (1)--reveals Lewis's deep love for the writings of William Morris, the late Victorian poet, co-inventor of the genre of fantasy, artist, designer, and political activist. Lewis was especially attracted to the eight prose romances (or proto-fantasy novels) Morris wrote from the late 1880s through the mid 1890s. Their lives, however, were in some ways reverse images of each other's. As an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford in the 1850s, Morris had intended a career as an Anglican priest, yet he abandoned his faith, avoiding organized religion for the rest of his life. (2) On the other hand, Lewis went through his studies at University College, Oxford more interested in philosophy than religion, converting to Christianity only in his early thirties. How such a writer with a growing Christian faith reacted to one whose faith had been a diminishing one is a topic of great interest. After his conversion Lewis could have reacted to Morris differently than he did--denying Morris's influence, say, or criticizing his apostasy. Instead Lewis finds ways to graft aspects of his own spirituality of longing onto Morris, thus imaginatively redeeming Morris, if only partially. This complex process is best seen in Lewis's appropriation of Morris's late work, Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. Lewis often patterned his own imaginative fiction after the work of others--Milton's Paradise Lost for his Perelandra, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress for Pilgrim's Regress, H. G. Wells's First Men in the Moon for Out of the Silent Planet, George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin for The Silver Chair, and Charles Williams's novels for That Hideous Strength (Boenig). (3) William Morris should be added to that list, (4) for Child Christopher, the least well-known of Morris's prose romances, is a major source for Prince Caspian, the second of Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. What Lewis really did with it reveals not only how Lewis treated source material, but also indicates something of Lewis's tolerance towards an author he termed "pagan" yet to whom he owed a significant spiritual debt.
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