Selected literary essays

Title:

Selected literary essays

Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Publication Information:

London, Cambridge U.P., 1969.

Format:

Books

Carrier Type:

xxi, 330 p. 23 cm.

Added Author:

Hooper, Walter.

ISBN:

9780521074414

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This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis' 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, are the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness, and the discreet erudition which characterise Lewis' best critical writing.

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

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