Into the Wardrobe

I am not a teacher, but I will be at some point, so I like this topic. High school history is what I am training for, so I'm not sure that I have a lot to add here, specifically, but I'll continue to read.

When I did my Ph.D. I found quickly that a lot of teachers who are not believers of any sort respect C. S. Lewis as a scholar. They know him as the author of The Allegory of Love, A Preface to Paradise Lost, The Discarded Image, and othe such works. Today I taught a class at a state university and brought in C. S. Lewis's idea of primary and secondary epic in talking about Beowulf.

Sometimes we don't realize that emphasizing the scholarly side of Lewis is a good way to get into his spiritual writing. A good spur to read his more scholarly work!

I have, by the way, read English Literature in the Early Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama--all 600 pages of it! It was worth the journey.