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Haggard's She: Burke's Sublime in a popular romance.(essay)(H. Rider Haggard)(Critical essay)
From: Mythlore
Date: 20060101
Author:Nelson, Dale J.
"Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away," Graham Greene confessed in "Rider Haggard's Secret" (Greene 209). J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis also affirmed the spell cast by She--Tolkien in Henry Resnick's 1966 interview ("I suppose as a boy She interested me as much as anything" [Resnick 40]), and Lewis in a review of a Haggard biography: "His openings--what story in the world opens better than She?--are full of alluring promise, and his catastrophes triumphantly keep it" (Lewis 97). Lewis ...
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