As Walter Hooper proposed to Cambridge University Press, 2013 would be the perfect time to release material by Lewis that prior to now hadn’t been available since first published. Plus, there were some essays difficult to obtain because of only being in books now out-of-print. The new title, Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews, is the result of what could be the final effort by Hooper to edit a collection of pieces by Lewis.
Month: August 2013
C.S. Lewis Calendar and Socratic Digest (with Dr. Joel Heck)
A variety of resources about C.S. Lewis or his works exist. Some are more unique than others, like Visiting with C.S. Lewis: A Perpetual Calendar created by Dr. Joel Heck and a collection called Socratic Digest that the following interview explores.
FACT: August 31, 2013
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
QUOTE: August 31, 2013
[After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes.”
Letter to Joan Lancaster
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/31/1958)
QUIZ: August 31, 2013
Prior to Letters to Malcolm being published three of the chapters were published under what title and why?
QUIZ: August 30, 2013
What is the name of the creatures that are like angels in Lewis’ science fiction trilogy?
FACT: August 30, 2013
The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters.
QUOTE: August 30, 2013
“The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVIII
(first published in The Guardian on 8/29/1941)
QUOTE: August 29, 2013
“‘Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’
‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’
‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director.
‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew.'”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
QUIZ: August 29, 2013
How many Earth years do the Chronicle of Narnia stories cover?