by Inariae » October 30th, 2006, 2:37 am
Thanks, Sven!
Jack enjoyed the Greek and Roman epics. I think he also liked Milton, Dryden, Spencer, Jane Austen, Thomas Mallory, Tolstoy, Dante, Chaucer, shakespeare, Colridge, Ovid, Lucretius, Lawrence, Herbert, Traherne...it could go on much longer. Plato and Aristotle of course (this isn't all fiction). Also Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Elder Edda, the Kalevala.
Might I also suggest An Experiment in Criticism by Lewis himself. An excellent treatise on the way in which literature ought to be read.
Media vita in morte sumus.
"Love loves unto purity...it strives for perfection, even that itself may be perfected - not in itself, but in the object...Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire...that only that which cannot be consumed may stand forth eternal." - George MacDonald