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

A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewis's most famous scholarly works. The book had its genesis in Lewis's Ballard Matthews Lectures which he delivered at the University College of North Wales in 1941.
Clive Staples Lewis book A Preface to Paradise Lost
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 2: "Is Criticism Possible?"
Clive Staples Lewis book A Preface to Paradise Lost
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 6: "Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic"