C.S. Lewis on Hamlet

I came across the quote below while reading C.S. Lewis's work, "Hamlet:  The Prince or the Poem" (in the previously cited collection Hamlet:  Enter Critic).  In part of the lecture that has become the written piece, Lewis answers T.S. Eliot's comments on Hamlet being "an artistic failure."  Lewis's rejoinder does well to explain why he, and perhaps Hamlet fans in general, find it so appealing.

"[If] this is failure, then failure is better than success.  We want more of these 'bad' plays.  From our first childish reading of the ghost scenes down to those golden minutes which we stole from marking examination papers on Hamlet to read a few pages of Hamlet itself, have we ever [known] the day or the hour when its enchantment failed?  That castle is part of our own world.  The affection we feel for the Prince, and, through him, for Horatio, is like a friendship in real life....[Hamlet] has a taste of its own, an all-pervading relish which we recognize even in its smallest fragments, and which, once tasted, we recur to.  When we want that taste, no other book will do instead."