Reading Charles Williams: A Prolegomena

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The work of Charles Walter Stanley Williams (1888-1945) is not likely to spawn a blockbuster motion picture, although I would like to see on...
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Jack and Joy

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Joy (then) Gresham at her second meeting (September 1952) with Jack and Warnie, on being given a single glass of sherry before their meal, ...

Assessing Lewis as a broadcaster

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Lewis made the connection with the audience as strongly as he could in this first broadcast. He insists that he is not preaching, and in co...

C.S. Lewis' first broadcast

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The first talk sets out the theme for the whole series. Lewis's very first sentence and what follows is what journalists would call a ...

Charles Williams on P.G. 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. ...

Elizabeth Taylor's connection to the Inklings

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As we all know, Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday, perhaps a good time to remember her connection with one of the Inklings. Richard Jenkins wo...

JRRT to Christopher Tolkien

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[Image: Paul Nash] 10 April 1944 I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the presen...

Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin

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My father said more than once that "The Fall of Gondolin" was the first of the tales of the First Age to be composed, and there is...
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'One who dreams alone'

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A pale, drawn man sits in a convalescent bed of a wartime hospital. He takes up a school exercise book and writes on its cover, with a calli...

Venus, from 'The Planets'

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Venus voyages... but my voice falters; Rude rime-making wrongs her beauty, Whose breasts and brow, and her breath's sweetness Bewitch t...

Saturn, from 'The Planets'

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Goes SATURN silent in the seventh region, The skirts of the sky. Scant grows the light, Sickly, uncertain (the Sun's finger Daunted with...

Jupiter, from 'The Planets'

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In February 2003, Revd Dr Michael Ward, Chaplain of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge was reading the section of “The Planets” that deals ...
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Silly Adventure Stories

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Dear Phyllida, Thanks for your most interesting cards. How do you get the gold so good? Whenever I tried to use it, however golden it looked...

C.S. Lewis by Owen Barfield (In Verse)

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[Owen Barfield] A year after Lewis' death, one of the lesser members (to many) of the Inklings, Owen Barfield, memorialised his friend...

Charles Williams in "Looking for the King" (II)

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"What is this Holy Grail we hear so much about?" asked Williams, pacing back and forth so rapidly that Tom could hear keys or coin...

Charles Williams from "Looking for the King" (I)

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"Tom crossed the quad, following others through a large wooden door and into a narrow passageway that led to the Divinity School. Emerg...

To Charles Williams

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Your death blows a strange bugle call, friend, and all is hard To see plainly or record truly. The new light imposes change, Re-adjusts all ...

Under the Mercy

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The grave of Charles Williams in Holywell Cemetery (also known as St. Cross Churchyard), Oxford is marked by a stone bearing his name and th...
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Looking for the King - A Review

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A classic tale of how not to amalgamate two books. The first a thriller set in 1940s England, visiting some of the key Authurian sites searc...
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'Looking for the King' - first thoughts

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Ignatius Press is based in California, David C. Downing is an English professor in Pennsylvania, and the English used in ‘Looking for the Ki...
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