![]() ![]() Spacious, severe, pale and remote) and then.found Never to be described (except that it is cold, Uplifted into huge regions of the northern sky Iĭesired with almost sickening intensity something I knew nothing about Balder but instantly I was When I idly turned the pages of the book andįound the unrhymed translation of "Tegner's Drapa", But then, and quiteĭifferent from such pleasures, and like a voiceįrom far more distant regions, there came a moment I had become fond of Longfellow's "Saga of King Olaf":įond of it in a casual, shallow way for its One such instance occurs when he is reading poetry : We perceive lurking behind the physical world that we observe. (longing), in Lewis's case a longing to discern the hidden something that Love of Norse mythology) helped him to finally quench his lifelong Sehnsucht Along the way heĭescribes his family life in Ireland, his misery at boarding school, educationĪt Oxford, service in WWI, and return to Oxford, where his friendship with ![]() ![]() To Theism and back to a more mature Christianity. His personal account of his journey from childhood Christianity to Atheism ![]()
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