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Of Other Worlds is a 1966 anthology of literary criticism by C. S. Lewis and published posthumously by the executors of his estate. It was edited by Lewis' secretary and eventual literary executor Walter Hooper. The first part of the anthology consists of several essays that cover Lewis' ideas about the creation of science fiction or fantasy ...
The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis published in the United States in 1960. The title essay is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The volume also contains a follow-up to Lewis' 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast."
Lewis lived with and cared for Moore until she was hospitalized in the late 1940s. He routinely introduced her as his mother, referred to her as such in letters, and developed a deeply affectionate friendship with her. Lewis's own mother had died when he was a child, while his father was distant, demanding, and eccentric.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. S. Lewis in 1955. The work describes Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his conversion to Christianity in 1931, but does not go beyond that date. [1] The title comes from William Wordsworth's poem "Surprised by Joy".
John P. Rumrich made the same assessment of Fish, describing Fish's book as "a methodologically radical update of Lewis's reading of Paradise Lost as a literary monument to mainstream Christianity"; [13] Michael Bryson highlights the importance of this in his remark that "even more than Lewis's work, however, the book that has cast the longest ...
Lewis begins by introducing the Middle Ages as a whole and by laying out the components that shaped their world view. This worldview, or "Model of the Universe", was shaped by two factors in particular: "the essentially bookish character of their culture, and their intense love of system". [2]
She sees that the beauty we appreciate in nature, music or elsewhere is temporary. Humans’ longing for joy is a key concept in C.S. Lewis’ writing.
Reason and Imagination in CS Lewis: A Study of "Till We Have Faces". Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-1998-2. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007; Peter J. Schakel, ed. The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Kent State University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-87338-204-8