While there are not many professors who have a website devoted to C.S. Lewis, fewer still can say they have had one around for almost twenty years. Dr. Bruce Edwards began what is now known as The C.S. Lewis Review in 1995. Today you can browse a variety of material that dates back to 2005. Now retired and living in Alaska, Dr. Edwards previously taught for 32 years at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He is the editor of the four volume C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy and has written four titles himself related to C.S. Lewis.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out today (6/27) in 1963 (first published 5/2/55).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first. ”
First and Second Things
(Published in Time and Tide on 6/27/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What are Hrossa in Out of the Silent Planet?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 26th
FACT OF THE DAY:
First and Second Things was first published June 27, 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Puddleglum is what type of creature?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 25th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.”
The Novels of Charles Williams
(Published in On Stories on 6/25/1982)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“You can’t _____ _____ _____ while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity (Paul McCusker)
Many think of Mere Christianity just as single book that is great at helping you understand and defend the faith. However, not only was it originally released as three different books and four series of radio talks, but there are many other fascinating behind the scenes details that you can learn from C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created a Classic. This book by Paul McCusker is just being released.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch, today (6/23) in 1948) and was revised and reprinted in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”
The Screwtape Letters VIII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
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RETROSPECT: June 22nd – 30th
Highlights for the final third of June (22nd – 30th) include: Sharing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his close friends four months before it was published, being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity and more talk from Screwtape about the “law of Undulation.”
As you may recall, Lewis met frequently with a group of friends called the Inklings. They gathered at a variety of places, but on the 22nd in 1950 it happened to be at the Eagle and Child. When they came together at this location it was unusual for them to actually read any of their works. Nevertheless, this was a special occasion, as Lewis brought the galley proofs of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 22nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on this day (6/22) in 1950.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Joy is the serious _____ _____ _____ .
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
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