Publisher's Synopsis
Explores C.S. Lewis' ideas about imagination in the non-literary arts. Although Lewis regarded engagement with the arts as essential to a well- rounded and satisfying life, critics of his work and biographers have given little attention to this aspect of his life. Schakel reviews the place of music, dance, art, and architecture in Lewis's life, the ways in which he uses them as content in his poems and stories, and how he develops some of the deepest, most significant themes of his stories through them
