tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post114675113038624197..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: C.S. Lewis on medieval literatureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-31305150606868407652009-06-17T14:24:17.183-04:002009-06-17T14:24:17.183-04:00Sounds like a fascinating course. I don't see ...Sounds like a fascinating course. I don't see why romantic love has to come to an end, though. If you read Lewis's "Four Loves," he seems to think that the ennobling elements of romantic love, when supplemented by Christian charity, elevate the human being beyond a merely "natural" state.Jagadananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887720845815026518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-1146927216457430212006-05-06T10:53:00.000-04:002006-05-06T10:53:00.000-04:00Gordon Morrell wrote:Some nice reflections. A cou...Gordon Morrell wrote:<BR/><BR/>Some nice reflections. A couple of years ago when I was researching in Kew, London, I picked up the volume of Tolkien's letters and read them as a distraction. Of course Tolkien and Lewis were close friends and there were many elegant accounts of beer fests at the 'Bird and Baby' pub (better known as the Eagle and Child in Oxford) between the two. The letters they exchanged were equally beautiful and simply powerful and though these two might well have been among the giants of their day or any day, there was a sense refected in these letters that among civil society more widely considered, a level of literacy existed that was rooted in classical education and a mastery of biblical and other shared sources. This is one of the reasons why I am always drawn back to the interwar period 1919-1939 as it is there that one could still see the echos of the 19th century, battered as there were by total war and the emergence of a savage ideological age. For me the world of the Orc, Elf, Dwarf, Wizard, Hobbit and Man is very closely rooted in this broken world, despite Tolkien's protestations <BR/>to the contrary. His fantasy world was a reflection of his real world and not an escape.Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.com