
Selected Literary Essays
C. S. Lewis(Author)
Walter Hooper(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-107-68538-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 UniversityMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-68538-3 (9781107685383)
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C. S. Lewis | Walter Hooper
Selected Literary Essays
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08/1979
Cambridge University Press
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Content
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.