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Although Ruth Pitter (1897 1992) is not well known, her credentials
as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the
mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total
she produced eighteen volumes of new and collected verse. Her A
Trophy of Arms (1936) won the Hawthornden Prize for Poetry in 1937,
and in 1954 she was awarded the William E. Heinemann Award for The
Ermine (1953). Most notably, perhaps, she became the first woman to
receive the Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955. Furthermore,
from 1946 to 1972 she was often a guest on BBC radio and television
programs, In 1974 The Royal Society of Literature elected her to
its highest honor, a Companion of Literature, and in 1979 she
received her last national award when she was appointed a Commander
of the British Empire. Pitter was a voluminous letter writer. Her
friends and correspondents read like a Who s Who of
twentieth-century British literary luminaries, including AE (George
Russell), A. R. Orage, Hiliare Belloc, Walter de la Mare, Julian
Huxley, John Masefield, Phillip and Ottoline Morrell, George
Orwell, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, James Stephens,
Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Sackville-West,
Dorothy Wellesley, Lord David Cecil, John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh,
John Wain, Kathleen Raine, and May Sarton. Stylistically Pitter s
letters are marked by crisp prose, precise imagery, and elegant
simplicity reflecting a well-read and vigorous mind lithe, curious,
penetrating, analytical, and perceptive. Of more her more than one
thousand letters covering the years 1908-1988, I publish here a
generous selection. I believe these selected letters go a long way
toward illustrating Pitter s desire to reach a public interested in
her as both a poet and personal commentator. These letters offer an
understanding of the silent music, the dance in stillness, the
hints and echoes and messages of which everything is full reflected
in her life and poetry. In total they provide an essential
introduction to the work of this neglected twentieth-century poet."
The intracarotid amobarbital (or Amytal) procedure is commonly
referred to as the Wada test in tribute to Juhn Wada, the physician
who devised the technique and performed the fIrst basic animal
research and clinical studies with this method. Wada testing has
become an integral part of the pre operative evaluation for
epilepsy surgery. Interestingly, however, Wada initially developed
this method as a technique to assess language dominance in
psychiatric patients in order that electroconvulsant therapy could
be applied unilaterally to the non-dominant hemisphere. Epilepsy
surgery has matured as a viable treatment for intractable seizures
and is no longer confmed to a few major universities and medical
institutes. Yet, as is increasingly clear by examining the surveys
of approaches used by epilepsy surgery centers (e.g., Rausch, 1987;
Snyder, Novelly, & Harris, 1990), there is not only great
heterogeneity in the methods used during Wada testing to assess
language and memory functions, but there also seems to be a lack of
consensus regarding the theoretical assumptions, and perhaps, even
the goals of this procedure.
The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of
C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don
W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's
famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how Warren's
experiences provide an illuminating window into the events,
personalities, and culture of 20th-century England. Inkling,
Historian, Soldier, and Brother will appeal to those interested in
C. S. Lewis and British social and cultural history. As a career
soldier, Warren served in France during the nightmare of World War
I and was later posted to Sierra Leone and Shanghai. On his
retirement from the army, he became an active member of the
household at the Kilns, the residence outside Oxford that he
co-owned with his brother and Mrs. Janie Moore, and he played an
important role in the relationship between his brother and Joy
Davidman, the woman who became C. S. Lewis's wife. A talented
writer and accomplished amateur historian, Warren also researched
and wrote seven books on 17th-century French history. Inkling,
Historian, Soldier, and Brother examines Warren Lewis's role as an
original member of the Oxford Inklings-that now famous group of
novelists, thinkers, clergy, poets, essayists, medical men,
scholars, and friends who met regularly to drink beer; discuss
books, ideas, history, and writers; and share pieces of their own
writing for feedback from the group. Drawing from Warren Lewis's
unpublished diaries, his letters, the memoir he wrote about his
family, and other primary materials, this biography is an engaging
story of a fascinating life, period of history, and of the warm and
loving relationship between Warren and his brother, which lasted
throughout their lives.
Joy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman
that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she
was also an accomplished writer in her own right - an awardwinning
poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the
late 1930s and early 1940s. Yet One More Spring is the first
comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction,
and fiction. Don King studies her body of work - including both
published and unpublished works - chronologically, tracing her
development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence
on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her
religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism
to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of
previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More
Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely
overlooked American writer.
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