November 27, 2006: Lewis on reading poetry for 'good lines' - 0 Comments

"The misunderstanding of the genus (narrative poetry) I have learned from looking into used copies of our great narrative poems. In them you find often enough a number of not very remarkable lines underscored with pencil in the first two pages, and all the rest of the book virgin."

- Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost, 1941