“Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide.
FACT: September 4, 2013
On this date in 1943 “My First School” was printed in Time and Tide as “Notes on the Way.” Reprinted in Present Concerns.
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: August 24, 2013
Two articles came out in Time and Tide this month in the 1940’s. Can you name either?
QUOTE: August 17, 2013
“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.”
The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)
FACT: August 17, 2013
The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today in 1940 in Time and Tide.
Fact: August 7, 2013
The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.
Quote: June 27, 2013
“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 6/27/42 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.)
Fact: June 25, 2013
Lewis wrote nine different “Notes on the Way” columns in Time and Tide between 1940 and 1946. All are in print in various essay collections.
Retro: May 29th – June 4th
Highlights in Lewis’s life for the week are: Advice from Screwtape on the danger war is to contented worldliness, a letter about figuring out “Aslan’s other name” and the acceptance of a new position late in his professional career.
One major event stands above all else for this time period in the life of Lewis. Most who know his life fairly