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".

Grief being better than estrangement

I think what you say about 'grief being better than estrangement' is very true. I am sorry you should have had this grief but, ...

Charles Williams Society AGM

Where? The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Shoe Lane, Oxford When? Saturday, 28th April from 12:00 noon Programme? Th...

Domesticities

It was early evening when my journey began. The train was full, but not yet uncomfortably full, of people going home. It is importan...

from "The Coming Of The Butterflies"

There was a sudden upward sweep of green and orange through the air in front of him: he blinked and moved. As he recover...

Magic in LOTR

I am afraid I have been far too casual about 'magic' and especially the use of the word; though Galadriel and others show by the ...

Screwtape on Humility

You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kin...

Conversations...

"Callers are the devil--I mean, the devil of a nuisance," the inspector remarked. "You see, you can get rid of them,...

On Ethics

Let us very clearly understand that, in a certain sense, it is no more possible to invent a new ethics than to place a new sun in the sky. ...

Forward to "Essays presented to Charles Williams"

In this book the reader is offered the work of one professional author, two dons, a solicitor, a friar, and a retired army officer; if he fe...

Bombadil

[Image : Anke Katrin Eissmann] 30 November 1955 [The Lord of the Rings was broadcast on the BBC Third Programme during 1955 a...

Eden's Courtesy

Such natural love twixt beast and man we find That children all desire an animal book, And all brutes, not perverted from ...

A storm of flash-bulbs

I am neither disturbed (nor surprised) at the limitations of my 'fame'. There are lots of people in Oxford who have never heard of ...

Lilith

"It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought... Phantastes. A few hours later I knew that I had crossed a g...

Cambridge, and Criticism

[Image: Girton College] I knew C. S. Lewis only during his last years when he was Professor of English at Cambridge. His a...

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 ...

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