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Playing by the rules: Kipling's "Great Game" vs. "the Great Dance" in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy.(Rudyard Kipling)(Critical essay)

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From: Mythlore
Date: 20060922
Author:Hooper, Teresa

From his young adulthood until his old age, C. S. Lewis had a deep appreciation of Kipling's work. His letters as a young university student occasionally revealed this passion: "W. [Warren Lewis] had just been reading Puck of Pook's Hill [...] he praised it highly and I agreed with him" (Letters 195). Four decades later, shortly before his death, he wrote to Magdalene college concerning his honorary fellowship that "If I loved you all less I should think much of being thus placed ('so were I equall'd with them in renown') beside Kipling and Eliot" (Letters 509).

Lewis often ...

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