Selected Literary Essays

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Cambridge University Press, 7 nov 2013 - 329 pagina's
This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.
 

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The Alliterative Metre
2
What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato
3
The FifteenthCentury Heroic Line
45
Hero and Leander
58
The Prince or The Poem?
88
Donne and Love Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
106
The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version
126
Shelley Dryden and Mr Eliot
187
Sir Walter Scott
209
William Morris
229
Kiplings World
235
A Semantic Nightmare
251
High and Low Brows
266
Metre
280
PsychoAnalysis and Literary Criticism
286

The Vision of John Bunyan
146
Addison
154
FourLetter Words
169
A Note on Jane Austen
181
The Anthropological Approach
301
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C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, "Jack" to his intimates, was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. His mother died when he was 10 years old and his lawyer father allowed Lewis and his brother Warren extensive freedom. The pair were extremely close and they took full advantage of this freedom, learning on their own and frequently enjoying games of make-believe. These early activities led to Lewis's lifelong attraction to fantasy and mythology, often reflected in his writing. He enjoyed writing about, and reading, literature of the past, publishing such works as the award-winning The Allegory of Love (1936), about the period of history known as the Middle Ages. Although at one time Lewis considered himself an atheist, he soon became fascinated with religion. He is probably best known for his books for young adults, such as his Chronicles of Narnia series. This fantasy series, as well as such works as The Screwtape Letters (a collection of letters written by the devil), is typical of the author's interest in mixing religion and mythology, evident in both his fictional works and nonfiction articles. Lewis served with the Somerset Light Infantry in World War I; for nearly 30 years he served as Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College at Oxford University. Later, he became Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. C.S. Lewis married late in life, in 1957, and his wife, writer Joy Davidman, died of cancer in 1960. He remained at Cambridge until his death on November 22, 1963.

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