So if these realties are left unaccounted for they are destructive. For Lewis, Christianity was this governing power. In The Chronicles of Narnia, it acts as a guard for his literary vision. Lewis took issue with raw romanticism believing that it would self-destruct and be unsuccessful in keeping its word. It does not work well. Lewis states his case in point by identifying the romantics whose focal point of their works was nature:
This love, when it sets up as a religion, is beginning to be a god--therefore to be a demon. And demons never keep their promises. Nature "dies" on those who try to live for a love of nature. Coleridge ended by being insensible to her; Wordsworth, by lamenting that the glory had passed away. (The Four Loves 22) …show more content…
He wants a clear and coherent Christian romanticism that views this pining as only longing after all . . . the dream is only a dream, but . . . fulfillment and satisfaction remain, as ever, an offering to man from beyond the world" (179 Similarly to Lewis Blamires saw that longing was not an end within itself, but rather an indicator of joy as given to us by C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia:
If the dreams and longings of youth did not lose their edge and their delight, but moved to culmination in a final, though finite, satisfaction, we should have less cause to know our homelessness on earth. Because they lose their intrinsic joy, we know our earthly dreams and longings for what they are, the pointers to fulfillment and reality; not ends in themselves, but significant disturbers of our peace. (179)
Since longing isn’t an end in itself, we cannot ignore it. Rather Blamires promotes honoring such feelings:
Unsatisfied longings must be nourished in us, and the elusive dream of fulfillment dangled before us, or we should never know that we are not here, on earth, in our proper resting place. Utterly divested of this disturbing inheritance, men's hearts would never desire the ultimate peace and joy offered by God.
This love, when it sets up as a religion, is beginning to be a god--therefore to be a demon. And demons never keep their promises. Nature "dies" on those who try to live for a love of nature. Coleridge ended by being insensible to her; Wordsworth, by lamenting that the glory had passed away. (The Four Loves 22) …show more content…
He wants a clear and coherent Christian romanticism that views this pining as only longing after all . . . the dream is only a dream, but . . . fulfillment and satisfaction remain, as ever, an offering to man from beyond the world" (179 Similarly to Lewis Blamires saw that longing was not an end within itself, but rather an indicator of joy as given to us by C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia:
If the dreams and longings of youth did not lose their edge and their delight, but moved to culmination in a final, though finite, satisfaction, we should have less cause to know our homelessness on earth. Because they lose their intrinsic joy, we know our earthly dreams and longings for what they are, the pointers to fulfillment and reality; not ends in themselves, but significant disturbers of our peace. (179)
Since longing isn’t an end in itself, we cannot ignore it. Rather Blamires promotes honoring such feelings:
Unsatisfied longings must be nourished in us, and the elusive dream of fulfillment dangled before us, or we should never know that we are not here, on earth, in our proper resting place. Utterly divested of this disturbing inheritance, men's hearts would never desire the ultimate peace and joy offered by God.