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   Steve Hayes to All   
   A reading list from C.S. Lewis   
   21 May 17 06:29:30   
   
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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   Brenton Dickieson's blog "A Pilgrim in Narnia" is one of the more   
   frequently clicked links on my blogroll, because he always has   
   interesting things to say about C.S. Lewis and the other Inklings.   
      
   In one of his posts I recently looked at he had abstracted a reading   
   list from C.S. Lewis's essay "An Experiment in Criticism", which must   
   have been quite a bit of work because, as he notes, "An Experiment in   
   Criticiam" has neither an index nor a bibliography.   
      
   "Lewis is one of the most widely read people I have ever encountered   
   in history. He devoured books, which were his lifelong love and the   
   foundation of his work as a scholar and writer. His own books are   
   layered with hundreds of the great books of history hidden within the   
   images, words, and stories. Even Narnia–especially Narnia, perhaps–is   
   soaked through with echoes from mythology, children’s fiction, the   
   poets, Arthurian tales, and the Bible. Not just these books, but their   
   fictional worlds too. Even the world of Sherlock Holmes is connected   
   with our early Narnian heroes."   
      
   You can read it all here (and how many of the works listed have you   
   read?):   
      
   https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2016/08/04/a-canon-listcsl/   
      
      
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   Steve Hayes   
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