FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Morte D’Arthur” by Lewis was published today (6/7) in 1947 in the Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It does one good to see the fine side of people we’ve always seen the worst of. ”
Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/7/1930
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
The first book that was a collection of essays edited by Walter Hooper came out this month…what was it?
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There’s no denying that Walter Hooper has made the greatest contribution to the study of C.S. Lewis, but do you know how he got started?
If you had to name only one person closely associated with C.S. Lewis’ work it has to be Walter Hooper. Just about every book published after Lewis’ death that is a collection of his writings has been edited by Hooper. Interestingly, Hooper, who was born in the U.S., only began corresponding with Lewis less than ten years before he died and met him only during the summer of 1963 before his death.
FACT OF THE DAY:
Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, was first published today in 1969.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Bible thus considered, for good or ill, as a single book, has been read for almost every purpose more diligently than for literary pleasure.”
The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version
(Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan.”
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Interestingly it was on Lewis’s fifty-sixth birthday (in 1954) that he gave what hard-core enthusiasts of his works often consider one of his best talks to a non-religious audience. “De Descriptione Temporum” are not words you hear every day, but they were fitting as a title for his inaugural lecture as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University. The translation for this Latin title is “a description of the times.” The Internet Archive has a copy of the complete text. Later it was recorded (4/1/1955) as a radio broadcast for the BBC where the title was “The Great Divide” and aired on April 6, 1955. You can get a copy of this recording, along with other audio featuring his voice from Episcopal Marketplace.
As you might imagine, there are differences between the radio version and the actual address. If you have both you will want to listen to it and follow along the printed version to see Lewis’s ability to adapt a text to different audiences.
Whether you are new to C.S. Lewis or an experienced reader of his works have I got a resource for you!
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was released today in 1966. All the stories are also in The Dark Tower.
As Walter Hooper proposed to Cambridge University Press, 2013 would be the perfect time to release material by Lewis that prior to now hadn’t been available since first published. Plus, there were some essays difficult to obtain because of only being in books now out-of-print. The new title, Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews, is the result of what could be the final effort by Hooper to edit a collection of pieces by Lewis.
The Business of Heaven, published earlier this month in 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. It was edited by Walter Hooper.
The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis was published on July 5th in 1984 and was edited by Walter Hooper.
“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
The Problem of Pain
