C.S. Lewis's vision assumed “that pagan wisdom and mythology may furnish us with some very significant clues to things. Spenser, in his Christian epic on Charity, The Faerie Queen, takes us to such pagan haunts as the Cave of Morpheus and the Garden of Adonis. Milton calls Christ Pan in his hymn for the Nativity. In Narnia we find Silenus and Bacchus themselves, surely the most pagan of all pagan gods, with their vines and wreaths and capering and tippling.”
Thomas Howard, C.S. Lewis: Man of Letters (Ignatius Press), p. 60.
