Plain to the inward eye
Subtitle: selected essays on C.S. Lewis
By: Don W. King
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abilene, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780891123903
Subjects: English Fantasy literature; English Christian literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death. C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and about Lewis for four decades. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death, King has put together a collection of his essays and critical reviews organized around four areas. The first deals mainly with what will perhaps be Lewis's longest lasting legacy--his ''Chronicles of Narnia.'' The second deals with Lewis's poetry, a neglected area of his work. The third focuses on Lewis and the two women poets with whom he had lasting relationships: Ruth Pitter and Joy Davidman. (Lewis and Davidman eventually fell in love and later married, twice.) The fourth offers a critical perspective on the way in which critical interest in Lewis has developed over the last thirty years." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Narnia and the seven deadly sins; title: The childlike in George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis; title: The door as Christian metaphor; title: The rhetorical similarities of Bertrand Russell and C.S. Lewis; title: The distant voice in C.S. Lewis's poems; title: Making the poor best of dull things: C.S. Lewis as poet; title: C.S. Lewis's the Quest of Bleheris as poetic prose; title: The poetry of prose: C S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra; title: Quorum porum: the literary cats of T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter, and Dorothy L. Sayers; title: Devil to devil: John Milton, C.S. Lewis, and Screwtape; title: The nature poetry of Ruth Pitter; title: Joy Davidman and the new masses: communist poet and reviewer; title: Fire and ice: C.S. Lewis and the love poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter; title: Reviews and review essays.