Love making in Modern Literature

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Wayland Young: … in general from the standpoint of Christian morality, the description of love-making in literature is on a par with the de...

The spark that lit the fire

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(Charles) would admit that he was not a tidy man in the office and had occasional clean-ups. On one such occasion, after one paper basket w...

from "The English Poets"

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Every great nation has expressed its spirit in art: generally in some particular form of art. The Italians are famous for their painting, t...

The Death of Charles Williams

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[The King's Arms on the junction of Parks Road & Holywell Street, Oxford] Tuesday 15th May, 1945. At 12.50 this morning… the tel...

Bors and Elayne: The King’s Coins

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The king has set up his mint by Thames. He has struck coins; his dragon's loins germinate a crowded creaturely brood t...

What is the Purpose of Life?

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[Rayner Unwin's daughter Camilla was told, as part of a school 'project', to write and ask: 'What is the purpose of life?...

The Full Treatment

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When I was a child I often had toothache, and I knew that if I went to my mother she would give me something which would deaden the pain for...
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The Eagle and Child

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When I'm in Oxford I often go there for lunch - they do a decent pub lunch. The Eagle & The Child is on the west side of the Woodsto...

Influences...

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I don't think Tolkien influenced me * , and I am certain that I didn't influence him. That is, didn't influence what he wrote. M...
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Looking for the King

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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...

Faith? Or Good Works?

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The Bible really seems to clinch the matter when it puts the two things together into one amazing sentence. The first half is, 'Work out...

The Kilns in Wartime

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In the First World War two things had been invented which were to change the whole face of wartime life for the people living at home. One w...

The Images

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Henry took a few steps forward, slowly and softly, almost as if he were afraid that those small images would overhear him, and softly and sl...

Another Aesthetic Experience

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When I was fourteen I went walking in the park on a Sunday afternoon, in clean, cold, luminous air. The trees tinkled with sleet; the city n...

Amon Rudh

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Then suddenly there was a rock-wall before them, flat-faced and sheer, forty feet high, maybe, but dusk dimmed the sky above them and guess...

Flat-earthers, and 'kindly enclyning'

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Physically considered, the Earth is a globe; all the authors of the high Middle Ages are agreed on this. In the earlier 'Dark' Ages,...

Doppelgaenger...

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Her heart sprang; there, a good way off-thanks to a merciful God - it was, materialized from nowhere in a moment. She knew it at once, howe...

An unliterary man

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only... The re-reader is looking not for actual surprises (which can come only...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (Last)

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Halt goes for ever from that stroke great Morgoth; but the king he broke, and would have hewn and mangled thrown to wolves...

Of Fingolfin and Morgoth (IV)

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Thrice was Fingolfin with great blows to his knees beaten, thrice he rose still leaping up beneath the cloud aloft to...