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Poems (Paperback, New Ed)
C. S. Lewis; Introduction by Walter Hooper
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This collection of C.S. Lewis's poetry contains a variety of styles
and moods.
This is the true story of C.S. Lewis - one of the greatest writers
of the twentieth century - whose books for children and adults have
become much-loved classics. Part of the story of C.S. Lewis has
been made famous through the film 'Shadowlands'. Here this
fascinating man's entire life-story is told by those who knew him
personally. C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898 and was sent to
England for a public school education with his elder brother,
Warren. Lewis exhibited a genius for imagination and perception
from his earliest years. Brought up in a Christian household, Lewis
lost his faith in his teenage years but was to regain it, with
reluctance, as a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. His faith
subsequently influenced his writings. He became a vigorous champion
of the Christian faith through classics such as Mere Christianity
and through his BBC broadcasts. His Chronicles of Narnia became
children's classics and he was deluged with correspondence from his
young readers. In his latter years he unexpectedly fell deeply in
love with a divorced American, Joy Greshem, and married her, only
to suffer the devastation of her death a few years later. C.S.
Lewis died in 1963 at his home in Oxford. During his lifetime C.S.
Lewis suggested to his friend, Roger Lancelyn Green, who was a
fellow English scholar, that he would undertake his biography one
day. After Lewis's death in 1963 Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper
were approached by several of Lewis's friends, to write the
biography. Warren Lewis, brother to Jack, contributed a great deal
to the writing. The authors had at their disposal a vast collection
of letters and diaries, as well as the recollections of many
surviving family members and friends. Walter Hooper has enhanced
the original text with additional material to provide a new,
expanded edition which all C.S. Lewis fans will be keen to own.
The lost tales of 'Animal-land', written and illustrated by C.S.
Lewis and his brother Warnie, which they developed into the
chronicles of the kingdom of Boxen, newly published to mark the
centenary of the first story. Half a century before the publication
of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis created another imaginary
world. The tales of 'Animal-land' which eight-year-old Jack (as his
family knew him) had shared with his brother Warnie developed into
the chronicles of the kingdom of Boxen. In a succession of stories
over the next few years, the young Lewis explored its history,
geography and the colourful exploits of its inhabitants in vivid
detail, writing the last of the papers, his Encyclopedia Boxoniana,
in April 1928. This new landmark edition marks the centenary of the
very first Boxen manuscript. Here are all the stories, some never
before seen, sensitively edited and arranged to make the most of
the fabulous and inventive fantasy while retaining all the vigour
of a child's imaginative writing. Lavishly and charmingly
illustrated by the author, and published for the very first time in
colour, together with facsimile pages from the original notebooks,
this book will provide a unique insight into one of the most
extraordinary minds of our age. For every reader who has been
captivated by the magic of Narnia, Boxen will open a window on to
another enchanted land.
C. S. Lewis's fiction is rich with reflections on the afterlife.
For many, reading his books helps in forming a more vivid
understanding of Heaven and Hell. In this book, Lewis scholar Wayne
Martindale uses some of Lewis's best-loved fiction as an
imaginative complement to his discussion on eternity.
Those who know Lewis's work will enjoy Martindale's thorough
examination of the powerful images of Heaven and Hell found in
Lewis's fiction, and all readers can appreciate Martindale's
scholarly yet accessible tone. Read this book, and you will see
afresh the wonder of what lies beyond the Shadowlands.
"Beyond the Shadowlands does much more than illuminate C. S.
Lewis. It illuminates the great mystery of the nature of eternal
life. This book makes the Christian reader yearn for what lies
ahead." --Gene Edward Veith, Cultural Editor, World magazine
"Dr. Wayne Martindale has done us all a great favor in gathering
up and putting into one volume what C. S. Lewis has written about
Heaven and the afterlife. The Lord has a way of shining the light
of Heaven down on the works of Lewis, and in the process delivering
us moderns from secular-minded myths. Many who read Beyond the
Shadowlands may find not only Heaven and a longing for the eternal
birthed in them, but missing parts of themselves set in as well: a
remythologized and ennobled self more fully participating in an
eternal kingdom." --Leanne Payne, author, founder, Pastoral Care
Ministry School
"This is no mere book. It is a window to the next world. You
will see things here that few have seen. Wayne Martindale has
produced a work of great love and illumination like nothing else
you'll read this year." --Thomas L. Martin, author of Poiesis and
Possible Worlds, editor of Reading the Classics with C. S.
Lewis
C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake Forest is a collection of sixteen
insightful essays that will delight both Inklings scholars and C.
S. Lewis readers of all ages and opinions. Walter Hooper, for
example, the man most responsible for preserving, publishing, and
promoting Lewis' many works after Lewis' death in 1963, shares
stories from his work with Lewis, Owen Barfield, Lady Collins, and
other friends of Lewis in his essay 'Editing C. S. Lewis, ' an
inspiring tale as well as a landmark event in Lewis scholarship.
James Como, author of Why I Believe in Narnia and a Keynote Speaker
at the international conference from which these essays were
collected, reveals the neglected C. S. Lewis, the cultural critic
and public philosopher whose insights and thinking give Lewis' more
popular novels and apologetic works their weight and value.
Fourteen more Lewis scholars explore Lewis' invaluable social
criticism, his philosophical and theological insights, his Narnia
books and Ransom Trilogy, as well as his medieval imagination and
mythological artistry. For the serious student of C. S. Lewis as
well as for anyone wanting to understand the Narnian novelist and
Christian genius more profoundly, C. S. Lewis: Views From Wake
Forest is a book that will open up new dimensions and ways of
appreciating his multi-faceted brilliance.
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
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. Taken
together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary
criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews
substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic
across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of
contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The
Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and
students of fantasy.
C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a
collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never
published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general
introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays
turn to the works of major writers such as Dante (The Divine
Comedy), Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur), Spenser (The Faerie Queene)
and Milton (Comus). Lewis's insightful yet accessible writing will
captivate anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance
literature.
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