Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper

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25 ibid., pp. 155–6. In his Treatise on Logic, says Barfield, Coleridge ‘points out how the world of grammar subsists between the two poles of verb and noun, the one expressing activity and the other passivity, the one an action and the other a state… We may think of grammar as a sort of world revolving about an axis. Only in the axis itself do the two poles coincide. And what is this axis? It is the verb “to be” itself.’

26 ibid., p. 57: ‘Sameness and Difference are the positive and negative aspects—of what? Of Likeness.’

27 ibid., p. 162: ‘Coleridge points out the startling metamorphosis of outward form which characterizes nature’s transition to the next stage of animal existence. The exuberant complexity of structure typical of the insect disappears altogether from the surface, having been withdrawn to the interior parts of the body…Nature sinks back exhausted from the line which she has hitherto been following and in her repose gathers strength for her newest creation—consciousness.’

28 See Daphne Harwood in the Biographical Appendix.

29 This was Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957), whose works include (with I. A. Richards) The Meaning of Meaning (1923), Basic English (1930) and The Basic Words (1932). Lewis disliked The Meaning of Meaning for reasons given in his essay ‘Bluspels and Flalansferes’ in SLE.

30 Lewis is referring to his ‘Great War’ with Owen Barfield over Anthroposophy, and the document into which Lewis put many of his arguments, known as the ‘Summa’. See footnote 35 to the letter to Barfield of 16 March 1932.

31 Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), Italian philosopher and critic, whose aesthetics were profoundly influential in Italy before the Second World War. Lewis was probably referring to Croce’s most important work. Aesthetics as the Science of Expression and General Linguistics (1902).

32 Daphne Harwood’s father had thought of buying the house, Tewsfield, which almost adjoined The Kilns. The house was bought shortly after this by Mrs Alice Griggs. See note 123 to the letter to Warnie of 2 October 1939.

33 John Collier, Tom’s A-Cold: A Tale (1933).

34 William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains (1890).

35 The ‘Scotch uncles’ were the two brothers of Albert Lewis, William Lewis (1859–1946) and Richard Lewis (b. 1861). After William lost his job with the Belfast Ropeworks, in 1883 he and his brother went to Glasgow where they entered into partnership as W. & R. Lewis, Rope and Twine Manufacturers. The two brothers lived close together in the coastal town of Helensburgh, north-west of Glasgow. See The Lewis Family in the Biographical Appendix to CL I.

36 They saw Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Covent Garden on 2 May. There is an account of the performance in The Times (3 May 1933), p. 12.

* Sounds as if this were the cause of the breakdown!

37 Thomas Rice Henn (1901–74) was educated at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1922. He was Fellow of English at St Catharine’s College, 1926–69 and Reader in Anglo-Irish Literature. His books include Longinus and English Criticism (1934) and The Bible as Literature (1970).

38 A copy of The Pilgrim’s Regress. Professor Henn kept this letter inside the cover of that book.

39 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1623), III, iv, 247–9: ‘Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly.’

40 See Mary Neylan in the Biographical Appendix. Lewis was her tutor in English although Mary Shelley was a member of St Hugh’s College. This letter of 21 July 1933 was written after she had taken a Fourth in English.

41 The language paper was on Anglo-Saxon which was marked with an ‘NS’ (‘non satis’ meaning ‘not satisfactory’ and a Δ (D) which is the lowest grade that can be given. Clearly, Anglo-Saxon was her undoing.

42 Eduard Habich.

43 The stage play, Cavalcade, about contemporary British history, was written by Noël Coward and first performed in 1932. It was made into a film by Frank Lloyd in 1933, and was so popular that a command performance was given at Windsor Castle before King George V and Queen Mary on 2 May 1933.

44 4 August.

45 7 August.

46 The stained-glass window designed for St Mark’s, Dundela, which Jack and Warnie had erected in memory of their parents. See note 60 to the letter to Warnie of 22 November 1931.

47 i.e. Charles Gordon Ewart (1885–1936) who married Lily Greeves, sister of Arthur Greeves. He was the second son of Lewis’s mother’s cousins. Sir William Quartus Ewart (1844–1919) and Lady Ewart (1849–1929) who lived near Little Lea in a house named Glenmachan. They are referred to in SBJ, ch. 3 and elsewhere as ‘Cousin Quartus’ and ‘Lady E’. They had four other children: Robert Heard ‘Bob’ Ewart (1879–1939); Hope Ewart (1882–1934); Kelso ‘Kelsie’ Ewart (1886–1966); and Gundreda ‘Gunny’ Ewart (1888–1978). See The Ewart Family in the Biographical Appendix to CL I.

48 Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur, book V, ‘Arthur’s War with Lucius’.

49 George MacDonald, Lilith: A Romance (1895).

50 MacDonald, Lilith: A Romance, with introductory key, a paraphrase of an earlier manuscript version, and explanation of notes by Greville MacDonald (1924).

51 King Kong (1933), in which a film producer goes on safari and brings СКАЧАТЬ