Plain to the Inward Eye

Selected Essays on C.S. Lewis

Don W. King

• Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780891127505
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death.C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and about Lewis for four decades. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death, King has put together a collection of his essays and critical reviews organized around four areas. The first deals mainly with what will perhaps be Lewis's longest lasting legacy--his Chronicles of Narnia. The second deals with Lewis's poetry, a neglected area of his work. The third focuses on Lewis and the two women poets with whom he had lasting relationships: ruth Pitter and Joy Davidman. (Lewis and Davidman eventually fell in love and later married, twice.) The fourth offers a critical perspective on the way in which critical interest in Lewis has developed over the last thirty years.Essays and reviews include: Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins The Wardrobe as Christian Metaphor The Childlike in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis Making the Poor Best of Dull Things: C. S. Lewis as Poet C. S. Lewis's The Quest of Bleheris as Poetic Prose The Poetry of Prose: C. S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra Fire and Ice: C. S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter Review of Shadowlands (film), directed by Richard Attenborough Review of C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper Review of C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters (3 vols.), by Walter Hooper Review of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs A Review Essay on Recent Books on C. S. Lewis

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins
• Chapter 2 The Childlike in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis
• Chapter 3 The Door as Christian Metaphor
• Chapter 4 The Rhetorical Similarities of Bertrand Russell and C. S. Lewis
• Chapter 5 The Distant Voice in C. S. Lewis’s Poems
• Chapter 6 Making the Poor Best of Dull Things: C. S. Lewis as Poet
• Chapter 7 C. S. Lewis’s The Quest of Bleheris as Poetic Prose
• Chapter 8 The Poetry of Prose: C. S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra
• Chapter 9 Quorum Porum: The Literary Cats of T. S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter, and Dorothy L. Sayers
• Chapter 10 Devil to Devil: John Milton, C. S. Lewis, and Screwtape
• Chapter 11 The Nature Poetry of Ruth Pitter
• Chapter 12 Joy Davidman and the New Masses: Communist Poet and Reviewer
• Chapter 13 Fire and Ice: C. S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter
• Reviews and Review Essays
• Bibliography
• Index