Quotes Nov 2, 2026
Poetry in the Little Things
C. S. Lewis on the difference between a great subject and a great poem.
Great subjects do not make great poems; usually, indeed, the reverse.
Source: C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), p. 377, Book III, Chapter I, “Sidney and Spenser.” Collected in On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions (2022).
— C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
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