Milton, Spenser and the ""Chronicles of Narnia Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis Novels Elizabeth Baird Hardy

In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of allegorical children's stories that became ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". This book examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes ""The Faerie Queen"" and ""Paradise Lost"", and how the elements of each work together to convey similar meanings.