Selected Literary Essays

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962.

List of contents

Preface Walter Hooper; 1. De Descriptione Temporum; 2. The alliterative metre; 3. What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato; 4. The fifteenth-century Heroic line; 5. Hero and Leander; 6. Variation in Shakespeare and others; 7. Hamlet: the prince or the poem?; 8. Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century; 9. The literary impact of the authorised version; 10. The vision of John Bunyan; 11. Addision; 12. Four-letter words; 13. A note on Jane Austen; 14. Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot; 15. Sir Walter Scott; 16. William Morris; 17. Kipling's world; 18. Bluspels and flalansferes: a semantic nightmare; 19. High and low brows; 20. Metre; 21. Psycho-analysis and literary criticism; 22. The anthropological approach; Index.

Summary

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. Common to each essay is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.

Product details

• Authors: C S Lewis, C. S. Lewis
• Assisted by: Walter Hooper (Editor), Hooper Walter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107685383
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68538-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Canto Classics; Canto Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000