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The whole rich and genial universe of mythological beings— giants, dragons, paradises, gods—were to him abbreviated symbols of qualities present in the world, or as Lewis in one place calls them, 'words of a language which speaks the else unspeakable'.
Often, when I quoted lines from his own poems he would ask who the author was. He was a very great scholar, but no expert in the field of C. S. Lewis.
Why! they all cry out to be used as symbols, Masks for Man, cartoons, parodies by Nature Formed to reveal us Each to each, not fiercely but in her gentlest Vein of household laughter.
