#107 Dr Sharon Jones: Floral particulars in CS Lewis
The C.S. Lewis podcast
The Blue Flower in Lewis's Narnia Stories
There is much that is green in C.S. Lewis's work, arguably both in an ecological and a symbolically Irish sense of the word. His friend Arthur taught him to see ordinary beauty in the humble cabbage and grass plays a special role in his fiction. Grassy spaces in his Narnia stories are associated with the generous and generative presence of Aslan. There is another blue flower, less commonly visible today, but grew in great swathes across Ulster and remains to have strongly associated with it.
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