Spenser's Images of Life

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C.S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis' longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified is the poem if to be fully enjoyed and understood.