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Did CS Lewis Experience Something Like Narnia as a Child?
Is Narnia similar to something CS Lewis experienced as a child? And how did he come up with the concept for the books? Well, of course Narnia is fictional. So we need to look at the fiction, the books that C.S. Lewis himself read if we want to find something close to a similar sort of experience that he might have had as a child. The poems of Edmund Spencer are most similar to Narnia. He was always voracious for every kind of literature throughout his life. If you're looking for real world things that he experienced which he might have taken into Narnia with him, he did say once that he was very fond of