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3 See Owen Barfield in the Biographical Appendix to CL I, pp. 979–82.

4 ‘The Five C. S. Lewises’, Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis, ed. G. B. Tennyson (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989), pp. 120–1.

5 ibid., p. 121.

6 ibid., pp. 121–2.

7 ‘Is Theology Poetry?’ Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces (London: 1965; Fount, 1998), p. 37.

8 Letter to Mary Neylan, 29 January 1941, in this volume.

9 Charles Wrong, ‘A Chance Meeting’, C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences, ed. James T. Como (1979; new edn, 1992), pp. 109–10.

10 See Janie King Moore in the Biographical Appendix to CL I.

11 See Dame Maureen Dunbar of Hempriggs in the Biographical Appendix to CL I.

12 See Edward Francis Courtenay ‘Paddy’ Moore in the Biographical Appendix to CL I.

13 Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography (London: Bles, 1974; rev. edn, 2002), ch. 2, p. 46.

14 see p. 496.

15 See p.766.

16 ‘It All began with a Picture…’, Of This and Other Worlds, ed. Walter Hooper (London: Collins, 1984; Fount, 2000), p. 64.

17 ‘Christian Apologetics’,. EC, p. 158.

18 ‘Version Vernacular’, The Christian Century, Vol. LXXV (31 December 1958), p. 515. Reprinted in EC, p. 779.

19 Letter to Canon John Beddow of 7 October 1945, p. 674.

20 See p. 869.

21 Letter to Nancy Warner of 26 October 1963 quoted in Green and Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, p. 415.

22 Letter to Walter Hooper of 5 April 2003.

       ABBREVIATIONS

      AMR = All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–1927, edited by Walter Hooper (1991)

      BBC = Written Archive Centre, British Broadcasting Corporation

      BF = Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis, edited by Clyde S. Kilby and Marjorie Lamp Mead (1982)

      Bod = Bodleian Library, Oxford University

      CG = Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide (1996)

      CL I = C. S. Lewis, Collected Utters. Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931, edited by Walter Hooper (2000)

      CP = C. S. Lewis, Collected Poems, edited by Walter Hooper (1994)

      EC = C. S. Lewis, Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, edited by Lesley Walmsley (2000)

      L = Letters of C. S. Lewis, edited with a Memoir by W. H. Lewis (1966); revised and enlarged edition edited by Walter Hooper (1988)

      Lambeth Palace = Lambeth Palace Library, Lambeth Palace, London

      LU = London University Germanic Institute

      M = Magdalen College, Oxford

      OUP = Oxford University Press, Oxford

      P = Private collection

      Prin = Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey

      SBJ = C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955)

      SLE = C. S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays, edited by Walter Hooper (1969)

      T = Taylor University, Upland, Indiana

      Tex = University of Texas at Austin

      UC North Wales = University College of North Wales, Bangor

      V = Congregation of the Poor Servants of Divine Providence, Verona, Italy

      Vic = University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

      W = Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

      WHL = W. H. Lewis’s unpublished biography of his brother, ‘C. S. Lewis: 1898–1963’. The greater part of the narrative was brought together as a ‘Memoir’ and it was published with most of the letters as Letters to C. S. Lewis, edited with a Memoir by W. H. Lewis (1966). There are two typescripts of ‘C. S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, one in the Bodleian Library, and one in the Wade Center

1931

      Volume I of the Collected Letters ended with a letter of 18 October 1931 in which Lewis described to his friend, Arthur Greeves, what happened on the night of 19 September when J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson dined with him at Magdalen College. The three of them were up until 4 a.m. discussing Christianity and its relation to myth. Lewis wrote:

      What Dyson and Tolkien showed me was this: that if I met the idea of sacrifice in a Pagan story I didn’t mind it at all: again, that if I met the idea of a god sacrificing himself to himself…I liked it very much and was mysteriously moved by it: again, that the idea of the dying and reviving god (Balder, Adonis, Bacchus) similarly moved me provided I met it anywhere except in the Gospels. The reason was that in Pagan stories I was prepared to feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp…Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth СКАЧАТЬ