“Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?"

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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