How fast could C.S. Lewis read?
by Kevin McCall It is well known that C.S. Lewis was an extremely fast reader. Richard Ladborough, in his essay “In Cambridge” in the bookC.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table writes: “It is now common knowledge that his [Lewis’s] memory was prodigious and that he seemed to have read everything.” In his essay “Jack on Holiday” in the same…
Article by S. Dorman Is there a right—or wrong—way to fictionalize C.S. Lewis? I cannot say the question was considered when I began tearing into the materials for Fantastic Travelogue, a speculative fiction in which C.S. Lewis and Mark Twain talk things over in the hereafter. Fictionalizing questions that I came to later—in order…
The synergy of CS Lewis and Owen Barfield
Article by Professor Bruce G Charlton It is well known that CS Lewis and Owen Barfield were best friends, from soon after 1919 when they met as undergraduates in Oxford University until Barfield’s death in 1997, some 34 years after Lewis had died. Because Barfield’s active engagement with Lewis – as man and thinker – continued right throughout his life, as evidenced in…
Albion Awakening Shares A Post With Us
An article by the wonderfully-named William Wildblood. The blog referred to in this article is Albion Awakening Mere Christians If there were patrons of this blog, in the sense of guiding lights, they might well be C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien with an honourable mention, particularly in Bruce Charlton’s case, of Owen Barfield. The stories…
Two Modern Saints
This is a repost of an article by an author with the excellent name of William WIldblood. A sentence in John Fitzgerald’s recent post set me thinking. He wrote “The body of work left behind by the Inklings has helped re-mythologise the world and baptise the contemporary imagination”. I haven’t read much by any of the…
On Lewis Reading Sayers
This article is by Dr. Alan Snyder Dorothy Sayers was never present at an Inklings meeting. She was never considered as a member of that weekly sharing of readings and thoughts. Yet she is often seen in conjunction with the Inklings because she graduated from Oxford herself and was friends with two of its…