On this date in 1943 “My First School” was printed in Time and Tide as “Notes on the Way.” Reprinted in Present Concerns.
QUOTE: September 3, 2013
“A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts: as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it.”
“The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard”
(First published as “Haggard Rides Again” on September 3, 1960 issue of Time and Tide)
FACT: September 3, 2013
“The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard” was first published today (9/3) in 1960 in Time and Tide as “Haggard Rides Again.”
QUIZ: September 3, 2013
How old was Lewis when his first book was published and what was it?
RETRO: September 2nd – 11th
Highlights for September 2nd-11th include: Two Narnia books published, a final fictional work, being on the cover of Time in the U.S. and his only title devoted to a book of the Bible.
The number of books published over the years during these ten days would be enough for most authors for an entire lifetime. Although, two of the titles are collections of shorter works were released after his death, interestingly the five others were during the last eleven years of his life.
QUOTE: September 2, 2013
“If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way.”
Letter to “Mrs. Lockley”
(from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 9/2/1949)
QUIZ: September 2, 2013
How many Narnia books were published for the first time during the month of September?
FACT: September 2, 2013
“The Condemned” is a poem first published as “Under Sentence” on September 7, 1945 in The Spectator.
FACT: September 1, 2013
“God in the Dock” was first published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae.
QUOTE: September 1, 2013
“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.”
“God in the Dock”
(First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae )