OLD WESTERN MAN FOR OUR TIMES.

LEWIS, C. S., 1898-1963; LITERARY criticism; PREFACE to Paradise Lost, A (Book); ABOLITION of Man, The (Book); CHRISTIAN apologetics; EAGLETON, Terry, 1943-; LEAVIS, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978; CRITICS

The article discusses the importance of British author C. S. Lewis as a literary critic. The author looks at Lewis's criticism of the English poet John Milton in the book "A Preface to Paradise Lost," Lewis's Christian apologetic works such as "Mere Christianity" and "The Abolition of Man" about what he terms Moral Law, as well as Lewis's brand of literary criticism that eschews the academic jargon of literary criticism prominent among theorists such as Terry Eagleton and F. R. Leavis.