The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volym 2Harper Collins, 29 juni 2004 - 1152 sidor C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime of serious writing. Lewis corresponded with many of the twentieth century's major literary figures, including J. R. R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Here we encounter a surge of letters in response to a new audience of laypeople who wrote to him after the great success of his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II -- talks that would ultimately become his masterwork, Mere Christianity. Volume II begins with C. S. Lewis writing his first major work of literary history, The Allegory of Love, which established him as a scholar with imaginative power. These letters trace his creative journey and recount his new circle of friends, "The Inklings," who meet regularly to share their writing. Tolkien reads aloud chapters of his unfinished The Lord of the Rings, while Lewis shares portions of his first novel, Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis's weekly letters to his brother, Warnie, away serving in the army during World War II, lead him to begin writing his first spiritual work, The Problem of Pain. After the serialization of The Screwtape Letters, the director of religious broadcasting at the BBC approached Lewis and the "Mere Christianity" talks were born. With his new broadcasting career, Lewis was inundated with letters from all over the world. His faithful, thoughtful responses to numerous questions reveal the clarity and wisdom of his theological and intellectual beliefs. Volume II includes Lewis's correspondence with great writers such as Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. The letters address many of Lewis's interests -- theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, and children's stories -- as well as reveal his relation ships with close friends and family. But what is apparent throughout this volume is how this quiet bachelor professor in England touched the lives of many through an amazing discipline of personal correspondence. Walter Hooper's insightful notes and compre hensive biographical appendix of the correspon dents make this an irreplaceable reference for those curious about the life and work of one of the most creative minds of the modern era. |
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... look up (3.30) I see those obscene birds advancing across the lawn, turning their infernal conning towers this way and that.” They are unfed, Tykes unwalked, and I must go out. I suppose this will cross your next letter and so produce a ...
... look upon Chinese as upon the Moon – a death's head or memento mori to nations as the moon is to worlds. 6 The books and papers they had brought over from Little Lea, their family home in Belfast. It is one of the 'painful mysteries' of ...
... look. Would a jeu d'esprit of this sort be tolerated in barracks? The reservoir to the West of the top wood is finished. It has been covered with earth so that the total effect is now that of a big plateau jutting out from the hillside ...
... look after yourself as well as you can. I suppose you are wearing tin-hats – alack the day! All send their love Yrs Jack. TO ARTHUR GREEVES (W): [The Kilns] Feb 1932 My dear Arthur, I have been laid up with flu' for over a fortnight or ...
... Look here – when you walk I walk. If you are finally forced to take your holiday earlier, make that the walk and Griffiths and I will come with you. A walk with the new Anthroposophical” member and without you is not good enough. But I ...
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