Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-365) and index.
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.
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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.