Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-365) and index.
Contents:
Reflections on literature: The idea of an 'English school' ; Our English syllabus ; Image and imagination ; Arundell Esdaile, The sources of English literature ; W.P. Ker, Form and style in poetry : lectures and notes, ed. R.W. Chambers ; Denis de Rougemont, Poetry and society and Claude Chavasse, The bride of Christ ; Oliver Elton (1861-1945) : an obituary ; Howard Rollin Patch, The other world, according to descriptions in medieval literature ; Werner Schwarz, Principles and problems of Biblical translation ; Tragic ends : George Steiner, The death of tragedy ; Eros on the loose : David Loth, The erotic in literature -- The Inklings : Barfield, Tolkien, and Williams: Who gaf me drink? : Owen Barfield, Romanticism comes of age ; G.A.L. Burgeon (= Owen Barfield), This ever diverse pair ; A world for children : J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and back again ; Professor Tolkien's hobbit : J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and back again ; The gods return to earth : J.R.R. Tolkien, The fellowship of the ring (being the first part of The lord of the rings) ; The dethronement of power : J.R.R. Tolkien, The two towers (being the second part of The lord of the rings) and The return of the king (being the third part of The lord of the rings) ; Preface from Essays presented to Charles Williams, ed. C.S. Lewis ; A sacred poem : Charles Williams, Taliessin through Logres ; Charles Williams, Taliessin through Logres ; Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) : an obituary -- Reflections on Christianity and literature: A lectionary of Christian prose from the second century to the twentieth century, ed. A.C. Bouquet ; The Oxford book of Christian verse, ed. Lord David Cecil ; Dorothy L. Sayers, The mind of the maker ; Selected sermons : A selection from the occasional sermons of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, ed. Evelyn Waugh ; Foreword to Joy Davidman, Smoke on the mountain : an interpretation of the ten commandments ; Preface to Austin Farrer, A faith of our own -- Classical literature: Odysseus sails again : The odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald ; Ajax and others : John Jones, On Aristotle and Greek tragedy ; Lucretius ; T.R. Henn, Longinus and English criticism ; Helen M. Barrett, Boethius : some aspects of his times and work -- Medieval and Renaissance literature: Ruth Mohl, The three estates in medieval and Renaissance literature ; J.W.H. Atkins, English literary criticism : the medieval phase ; Arthuriana : Arthurian literature in the middle ages : a collaborative study, ed. R.S. Loomis ; Introduction from Selections from Lazamon's Brut, ed. G.L. Brook ; Andreas Capellanus, The art of courtly love, with introduction, translation, and notes by John Jay Parry ; Rhyme and reason : Dorothy L. Sayers, The poetry of search and the poetry of statement ; Alan M.F. Gunn, The mirror of love : a reinterpretation of The romance of the rose ; The English prose Morte ; Leone Ebreo, The philosophy of love (dialoghi d'amore), trans. J. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes, and intro. Cecil Roth ; E.K. Chambers, Sir Thomas Wyatt and some collected studies ; M. Pauline Parker, The allegory of the Faerie queene ; John Vyvyan, Shakespeare and the rose of love -- Milton and later English literature: Logan Pearsall Smith, Milton and his modern critics ; Douglas Bush, Paradise lost in our time : some comments ; H.W. Garrod, Collins ; Hugh Kingsmill, Matthew Arnold ; Evelyn Waugh, Rossetti : his life and works ; Boswell's bugbear : Sir John Hawkins, The life of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bertram Hylton Davis ; Poetry and exegesis : Harold Bloom, The visionary company : a reading of English romantic poetry ; The sagas and modern life : Morris, Mr. Yeats, and the originals : Dorothy M. Hoare, The works of Morris and of Yeats in relation to early saga literature ; Haggard rides again : Morton Cohen, Rider Haggard : his life and works.
Summary:
This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, "Image and Imagination", is published for the first time.
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