that 'the imaginative man' underpins them all: 'It was he who made me first attempt . . . to be a poet. It was he who, in response to the poetry of others, made me a critic, and, in defence of that response, sometimes a critical controversialist. It was he who, after my conversion, led me to embody my religious belief in symbolical or mythopoeic forms'--by which Lewis meant The Chronicles of Narnia and other fictions.from The Guardian: Last lines of a lion in winter
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