C.S. Lewis on Old Books | Episode XIV
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Lewis's the Shropshire Lad 40 From Hausman
As lewis famously as an adult convert, he's reading really widely. And in the days when i still hated christianity, i learned to recognize that almost unvarying something which met me now in puritan bunyan and anglican hooker. He says, it's an odor not to be evaded, which is death to us, until we allow it to become life. The thing about this poem is that he's saying, what? What is the air itself that's blowing from yon far country?He connects it to what he sees also, blue remembered hills, these spires and farms. It's coming from the land of lost content, like
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