C. S. LewisCambridge University Press, 11/7/2013EAN 9781107685383, ISBN10: 1107685389Paperback, 354 pages, 21.7 x 13.8 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishOriginally published in EnglishThis 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.Preface Walter Hooper1. De Descriptione Temporum2. The alliterative metre3. What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato4. The fifteenth-century Heroic line5. Hero and Leander6. Variation in Shakespeare and others7. Hamletthe prince or the poem?8. Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century9. The literary impact of the authorised version10. The vision of John Bunyan11. Addision12. Four-letter words13. A note on Jane Austen14. Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot15. Sir Walter Scott16. William Morris17. Kipling's world18. Bluspels and flalansferesa semantic nightmare19. High and low brows20. Metre21. Psycho-analysis and literary criticism22. The anthropological approachIndex.
