Ab Editor "Why do you make that comparison particularly? I feel I should know, but am feeling a bit thick today... "
They were both Inklings, up at Oxford at the same time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inklings
I quite like the Narnia series, although reading them as an adult, the allegory is a bit like being continually hit over the head with a lumpy pillow; but I can't get past CS Lewis' statement
"Only one wearing the masculine uniform can (provisionally, and till the Parousia) represent the Lord to the Church: for we are all, corporately and individually, feminine to Him."
I mean What The Funicular????
http://www.episcopalnet.org/TRACTS/priestesses.html
and his science fiction is strange even for a strange genre at a strange time in its development...but the Screwtape Letters are pretty funny and worth a read I think.
Yes i like Ezra Pound and TS Elliot.
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Ezra-pound-salutation-the-second-lyrics