I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say at last, I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do β so much have I enjoyed it. β¨ Letter to Arthur Greeves on Edmund Spenser on March 07, 1916. The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931. Book edited by Walter Hooper, p. 170, 2004.
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