Selected Literary Essays
Selected Literary Essays
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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 Authorised 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.
- Consists of more than twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962
- Covers a diverse range of topics and authors, including psychoanalysis, semantics, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Kipling
- Walter Hooper, a leading Lewis expert, provides a preface and notes to the collection of essays
Reviews & endorsements
'There is no essay by C. S. Lewis on any writer that does not provoke attention and inspire awe at his energy and clarity of mind.' Claude Rawson, Yale University
Product details
November 2013Paperback
9781107685383
352 pages
215 × 138 × 18 mm
0.5kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface Walter Hooper
- 1. De Descriptione Temporum
- 2. The alliterative metre
- 3. What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato
- 4. The fifteenth-century Heroic line
- 5. Hero and Leander
- 6. Variation in Shakespeare and others
- 7. Hamlet: the prince or the poem?
- 8. Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century
- 9. The literary impact of the authorised version
- 10. The vision of John Bunyan
- 11. Addision
- 12. Four-letter words
- 13. A note on Jane Austen
- 14. Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot
- 15. Sir Walter Scott
- 16. William Morris
- 17. Kipling's world
- 18. Bluspels and flalansferes: a semantic nightmare
- 19. High and low brows
- 20. Metre
- 21. Psycho-analysis and literary criticism
- 22. The anthropological approach
- Index.
