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C. S. Lewis's reading

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C. S. Lewis's reading

Postby throughlkglass » October 26th, 2006, 6:54 pm

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Postby Janet » October 26th, 2006, 7:47 pm

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Postby Leslie » October 26th, 2006, 10:24 pm

I remember a reference, I think in an essay in First and Second Things, to something he had read in Time and Tide, an English journal no longer published.

I think his letters would be the best source of information about his reading. From what I can recall of those I have read, he discusses his reading with several of his correspondents.
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Postby Monica » October 27th, 2006, 12:16 pm

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Postby Janet » October 27th, 2006, 1:50 pm

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Postby Monica » October 27th, 2006, 2:46 pm

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Postby nomad » October 28th, 2006, 2:19 am

Thanks Monica. I recall Lewis' mentioning several of those at some point or other in what I've read of him so far. That's great info.
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Postby Inariae » October 28th, 2006, 2:40 am

Have you even found Idea of the Holy, Monica? I've looked for it in every used and mainstream bookstore I've walked into in the last year. So far I've had to read it on the internet, but I would like a copy of my own.
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Postby Sven » October 28th, 2006, 9:13 am

It is in print and available, Inariae. Amazon has it . They even have used copies for under $5. If you're uncomfortable with buying online, just go to your local bookstore and ask them to order ISBN 0195002105 for you.

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Postby mgton » October 28th, 2006, 8:41 pm

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Postby Inariae » October 30th, 2006, 2:37 am

Thanks, Sven!

Jack enjoyed the Greek and Roman epics. I think he also liked Milton, Dryden, Spencer, Jane Austen, Thomas Mallory, Tolstoy, Dante, Chaucer, shakespeare, Colridge, Ovid, Lucretius, Lawrence, Herbert, Traherne...it could go on much longer. Plato and Aristotle of course (this isn't all fiction). Also Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Elder Edda, the Kalevala.

Might I also suggest An Experiment in Criticism by Lewis himself. An excellent treatise on the way in which literature ought to be read.
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Postby Solomons Song » October 30th, 2006, 4:50 pm

Does anyone know if Lewis appreciated the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels?
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Postby mgton » October 30th, 2006, 5:38 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » October 30th, 2006, 5:43 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Coyote Goodfellow » October 30th, 2006, 8:06 pm

"I don't care if it is wrong," said one of the moles. "I'd do it again."
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