Bath Song

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Sing hey! for the bath at close of day That washes the weary mud away! A loon is he that will not sing: O! Water Hot is a noble thing! O! S...
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Memories of Lewis

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I know myself what others know far better - how unfailingly courteous Lewis was in answering letters. I think I corresponded with him on thr...

All Hallows Eve

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Lester looked round her. She saw the stars; she saw the lights; she saw dim shapes of houses and trees in a landscape which was less familia...

Barfield's 'ancient unities'

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Owen Barfield (1898–1997) and C. S. Lewis were exact contemporaries and as Oxford students they became each other’s best friends for some ti...

JK Rowling an Inkling?

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Harry, of course, is able to battle supernatural evil with supernatural forces of his own, and Rowling is quite clear that she doesn’t perso...
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Descent into Hell

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The ladder frightened him, lest it should be too much boarded, or else, bone-white in the moon, should, while he climbed, expose his yet liv...
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Love your Enemies

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[One of the most unpopular of the Christian virtues] is laid down in the Christian rule, 'Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself.'...

T.S. Elliot on Charles Williams

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"For him there was no frontier between the material and the spiritual world. Had I ever to spend a night in a haunted house, I should h...

I gave in, and admitted that God was God...

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This discovery flashed a new light back on my whole life. I saw that all my waitings and watchings for Joy, all my vain hopes to find some ...
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Mere Theology

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In The Pilgrim’s Regress, John, the chief character longs for an island in the west that he has seen in a vision. His longing for the island...

Arthur C. Clarke & C.S. Lewis

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In 1956 Clarke moved to Sri Lanka to pursue his hobby of scuba diving. That's the year when C.S. Lewis told Kathryn Lindskoog that the ...
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Lewis on Williams

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As for the man: he is about 52, of humble origin (there are still traces of cockney in his voice), ugly as a chimpanzee but so radiant (he e...

The fall of Gil-galad

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[Image: Antii Rantanen] A brief extract from a poem "The fall of Gil-galad", sung Sam Gamgee to the company on Weathertop before ...

Williams on Wodehouse

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Barbara stretched out her hands, and Lionel pulled her to her feet. "I just want to shimmer up, like Jeeves, not walk," she said. ...

The Geste of Beren and Lúthien

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Songs have recalled the Elves have sung in old forgotten elven tongue how Lúthien and Beren strayed by the banks of Sirion. Many a glade the...

The Yearning for Heaven

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We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about 'pie in the sky', and of being told that we are ...

(Reviewing a detective novel published by Cassell and Co.)

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Messrs. Cassell, on the jacket, ask "Why was Nahum afraid of life?" I don’t understand. Aren’t Messrs. Cassell? Charles Williams

Lewis' greatest secret

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I know myself what others know far better -- how unfailingly courteous Lewis was in answering letters. I think I corresponded with him on t...

Lewis on Taliessin

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Dec. 15th 1945 “... I am (these last 6 months) immersed in a v. different poet who I think great – Charles Williams: the two volumes of his ...

Bors to Elayne (Kings Coins - Final)

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The Archbishop answered the lords; his words went up through a slope of calm air: 'Might may take symbols and folly take treasure, and g...