On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.
Month: September 2013
QUIZ: September 24, 2013
What book dealing with events from Lewis’s own life came out this month?
QUOTE: September 24, 2013
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
QUOTE: September 23, 2013
“Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
FACT: September 23, 2013
Out of the Silent Planet was first published 75 years ago today (9/23/1938). It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian.
QUIZ: September 23, 2013
Which Narnia book was dramatized over the radio BEFORE Lewis died?
RETRO: September 22nd – 30th
Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.
It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened 75 years ago on September 23rd. In 1938 Lewis released the first of what is referred to its fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a
FACT: September 22, 2013
On this day in 1944 “The Death of Words” was published in The Spectator. It was republished in On Stories.
QUOTE: September 22, 2013
“The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?”
The Death of Words
(Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator)
QUIZ: September 22, 2013
Name the source of this quote:
“Die before you die. There is no chance after.”