FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day (10/7) in 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 9/7
FACT OF THE DAY: The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (9/7) in 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.” …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/14
FACT OF THE DAY: Voyage to Venus by Lewis was published today (8/14) in 1953. It is the same book as Perelandra from 1943. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must use the talent we have, not the talents we haven’t.” Letter to Cynthia Donnelly 8/14/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s letter to the editor of Church Times on “The Holy Name” was published today (8/10) in 1951. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.” Letter to Don Giovanni …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on this date (6/3) in 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day in 1953.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.”
Preface to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Written 10/7/1953)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
This month in what year did Lewis begin working where?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (9/7) in 1953.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.”
The Silver Chair
(Published 9/7/1953)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”
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