![]() ![]() ![]() There are other parallels between Bunyan and Lewis. The other, far further away and longer ago, left behind (he had supposed) in childhood, was his delight in old wives’ tales and such last remnants of chivalric romance as he had found in chap-books. One was his present and lifelong preoccupation with the spiritual life. My own guess is that the scheme of a journey with adventures suddenly reunited two things in Bunyan’s mind which had hitherto lain far apart. ![]() Once he described, in terms that fit well his own writings, the genesis of Bunyan’s masterpiece: Lewis, Letters to Arthur Greeves 320), and later, after his conversion, it served as a model for his first work of apologetics, The Pilgrim’s Regress. He spent part of the Christmas holiday of 1929 (before he had become a Christian) indexing it (cf. Lewis admired John Bunyan, whose The Pilgrim’s Progress Lewis knew wel1. Along with Saint Francis, George Herbert, George MacDonald, “and even burly old Dr. Lewis mentions five “shining examples of human holiness”. ![]()
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