The Tragic Life Of C.S Lewis | Narnia's Lost Poet

CS Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia - best-selling children's author and famous Christian writer, but an under-appreciated Oxford academic and an aspiring poet who never achieved the same success in writing verse as he did prose.

58 min - Art, Music & Design - Absolute History

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