On this date in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title.
Month: October 2013
QUIZ: October 29, 2013
William Kirkpatrick tutored Lewis in his youth. What was his nickname?
QUOTE: October 29, 2013
“Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUIZ: October 28, 2013
Who is Digory?
FACT: October 28, 2013
“Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October issue of Resistance.
QUOTE: October 28, 2013
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: October 27, 2013
Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book.
QUOTE: October 27, 2013
“We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.'”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
QUIZ: October 27, 2013
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“An old saint being asked whether it is easy or hard to love God replied: ‘It is easy to _____ ______ _____ ____.'”
FACT: October 26, 2013
Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on this date (10/26) in 1964.