Here his language leaps into lofty regions of prose-poetry, vivid and rhapsodic and sublime. Drawing from medieval astrologers’ beliefs about the celestial bodies and their effects on human personalities, Lewis works to produce the same impressions on his readers through the power of descriptive prose. Each makes its grand entrance, filling the room with its unique essence. Mercury is electric, fleet-footed, crackling with youthful vigor Venus is unutterably lovely, all-embracing, all-pacifying. The others are no less vividly described. ![]() In a recent post I alluded to the entrances of Mars and Saturn. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength, the gods – that is, the Oyarsa, the planetary intelligences – descend into the drawing room of an English manor.
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