Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia

In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of children's stories that became The Chronicles of Narnia . The now vastly popular Chronicles are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the Chronicles is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald's fantastic fiction and the cou