QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after forty years of reading it.” Spenser’s Images of Life (Published 11/2/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 2, 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by …
CSL Daily 08/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge in August, 1963. There he had 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 …
CSL Daily 05/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given on May 11, 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to …
CSL Daily 04/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on April 21, 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth …
CSL Daily 01/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944)
CSL Daily 11/02/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 2, 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after forty years of …
CSL Daily 8/03/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge in August, 1963. There he had 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 …
CSL Daily 5/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given on May 11, 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”) – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to …
CSL Daily 4/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on April 21, 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are …
CSL Daily 1/7/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944)