Analysis of poems
- A Baby-Sermon
- A Better Thing
- A Birth-Day Wish
- A Book Of Dreams: Part I
- A Book Of Dreams: Part Ii
- A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - April
- A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - August
- A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - December
- A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - February
- A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - January
Biography
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W.H. Audent, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S. Lewis who wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G.K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
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