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C. S. Lewis wrote of his first reading of Phantastes at age sixteen, "That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me[,] not unnaturally, took longer. I had not the faintest notion what I had let myself in for by buying Phantastes." [2] J. R. R. Tolkien mentioned MacDonald in his essay "On Fairy-Stories". [3]
The narrator, a writer when alive, is met by the writer George MacDonald; the narrator hails MacDonald as his mentor, just as Dante did when first meeting Virgil in the Divine Comedy; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's. MacDonald explains that it is possible for a soul to choose to remain in ...
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister.He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.
George MacDonald, whose fantasy stories were read by a young Tolkien, was born 200 years ago in Huntly. 'Forgotten Scot' who inspired Tolkien and CS Lewis Skip to main content
Lewis's interest in the works of the Scottish writer George MacDonald was part of what turned him from atheism. This can be seen particularly well through this passage in Lewis's The Great Divorce , chapter nine, when the semi-autobiographical main character meets MacDonald in Heaven :
Four of them are the Inklings [1] Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. The other authors are G. K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The collection also includes materials on Lewis's wife, the poet Joy Davidman. The center is named after Marion E. Wade, founder of ServiceMaster.
James Blish ranked Lilith as "one of the great originals," saying that its "allegory is far from obtrusive, and the story proper both tense and decidedly eerie." [3] E. F. Bleiler described it as "a long parabolic narrative heavily laden with Victorian Christian symbolism" and noted that critical opinion of the novel was sharply divided: "Some critics regard it highly for its fine images and ...
[4] [5] At an early age, she read George MacDonald's children's books and his adult fantasy book, Phantastes. She wrote about the influence of these stories: "They developed in me a lifelong taste for fantasy, which led me years later to C. S. Lewis, who in turn led me to religion."