The Inklings

A place for an occasional examination of the work of the Inklings... and to marvel at, in Charles Williams' words, "... the staff work of the Omnipotence".

A Williams Biography...

There are signs that Charles Williams is being reassessed. Recent reprints of his novels, and editions of his letters, in Britain and North ...

Children and 'Childishness'

I had to think about it, however, before I gave an 'Andrew Lang' lecture at St Andrews on Fairy-stories; and I must say I think the ...

Ballade of a Street Door

As I came up into the town Wherein my father's house abide, I met a man in tattered gown, In ragged garment blowi...

Numinor in CS Lewis

Your discovery of 'Numinor' in C.S.L.'s That Hideous Strength is discovery of a plagiarism: well, not that, since he used the w...

The Brobdingnagianly tactless thing

[The High in Oxford, 50 years ago] It came over me like a thunderclap about 30 seconds after I had left you in the Lodge this afternoon tha...

A Young Atheist

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even ...

The Stone

Meanwhile the Prince Ali drove through the London streets till he reached the Embassy, steering the car almost mechanically while he surveye...

The Pattern in the Web

The best book yet done on Charles Williams's poetry. Dr. King treats Williams’s poetry as poetry and Williams as a poet. Too often CW...

from "The Geste of Beren and Lúthien"

There Fëanor mourned his jewels divine, the Silmarils he made. Like wine his wild and potent words them fill; a great host...

from "The Geste of Beren and Lúthien"

( Fëanor - Source: ar-feiniel ) Book VI. When Morgoth in that day of doom had slain the Trees and filled with gloo...

The Approach to English

We were soon acquainted, for we were in the same situation; each was in the position of having no more than a year in which to read the Engl...

"I am affable, but unsociable"

[On 5 June 1955 in the New York Times Book Review, the columnist Harvey Breit devoted part of his weekly article 'In and Out of Books...

from "The Ephiphany"

The Child upon Our Lady's lap The kings bowed down before : To see this wonder, by good hap, The slaves thronged at the do...

Democratic Education...

There is something about this endless examining, quite apart from the labour, which bothers me. It sets me wondering about the whole system...

Jack, by Tollers

[A comment on an article about C. S. Lewis by one of his former pupils, George Bailey, in The Reporter, 23 April 1964.] 30 August 1964 C...

Some Answers...

Dear Meredith, 1. Why did I become a writer? Chiefly, I think, because my clumsiness or fingers prevented me from making things in any ot...

Monday 25 December (1922)

We were awakened early by my father to go to the Communion Service. It was a dark morning with a gale blowing and some very cold rain. We ...

from "The Greater Trumps"

She took a step forward, and her heart beat fast and high as she seemed to move into the clouded golden mist that received her, and fantasti...

My heart and mind is in the Silmarillion...

[Image : 76 Sandfield Road, Oxford] My heart and mind is in the Silmarillion, but I have not had much time for it. .... It may amuse you t...

Look for Truth first

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not k...

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