Lewis, the Lion in Milton Scholarship: "A Preface to Paradise Lost" w/ David Urban - Podcast Episode

In the first half of the 20th century, England elites like T.S. Eliot were trying to devalue John Milton and elevate John Donne-exchanging one 17th-century English poet for another. At the height of World War II, C.S. Lewis took up arms against these oppressors and defended Milton in a series of lectures that would later be published as A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942). Since then, every aspiring scholar has had to grapple with Lewis, the lion in the path of Milton studies. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down with Dr. David Urban (Professor of English at Calvin University) to discuss how Paradise Lost and Lewis's Preface to it serves as a crucial lens through which to read and interpret Lewis's fiction and non-fiction works.

[@melindalemmon2149]

Love this.

[@Wraiths_and_Wreckage]

Every once in a while I disagree with Lewis, and this is one of those times. How does he miss the fact that the man ruling over his wife is a part of the CURSE? It's a punishment that comes as a RESULT of sin, not a precursor to it. As for the idea (not Lewis') that Adam sinned 'nobly' to die with his wife, that's belied by his immediately throwing her under the bus. lol

[@Bradford.C.Wallsbury]

Doesn't Genesis 2:18 "an help" imply a kind of functional subordination of Eve though?