
“My Own Eyes Are Not Enough:” Towards a Theory of “Christian” Art Part 2
By guest blogger Andrew Winckles Eighteenth Century Culture The Mimetic Criticism of C.S. Lewis Whereas Eliot, post conversion, seems to have been primarily concerned with making his new belief speak to his intellectual ideas of poetics and criticism, C.S. Lewis seems to have been much more contented operating in the ambiguous middle ground between poetry and belief, recognizing the importance of both and the ways in which they speak to each other, without having to come up with a cohesive, definitive system or theory of all the ways poetry and faith interact. As he wrote in an essay on “Christianity … Continue reading “My Own Eyes Are Not Enough:” Towards a Theory of “Christian” Art Part 2