Compares authors C.S. Lewis and Charles Dickens. Examines the works and lives of both men. Promotes Lewis as the better of the two based on his works and personal history.
"Inside the mind of a man
A mystical union took place
Between Christianity and literary imagination
Done with probable unique perfection
Distant lands and distant planets
Seduced our thoughts in long guarded places
Bringing in its hidden glory
An old and new unforgettable story
It was no parceled dull article that we were offered
Only an old antique that was newly polished
So that we saw the thing in its proper glory
The renewed glamour to the original story
The creed is the masculine, the literary feminine
Each intertwined and needing each other
As it was in the beginning and is forever
And all the Shadowlands reflect its true author"
Clive Staples Lewis is the author warmly remembered by this rhyme. When Paul Birgin wrote this ode in memory of the unforgettable writer, he took into consideration how C. S. Lewis expanded the breadth and scope of literary ambitions. His entire collection.....
