C. S. Lewis Tables of Contents

Tables of Contents for the Works of C.S. Lewis (excluding fiction)

*grayed out means the essay is included in the Lewis essay collection

 

Abolition of Man

Contents:

1. Men Without Chests
2. The  Way
3. The Abolition of Man

Appendix—Illustrations of the Tao

Notes

 

All My Road Before Me
(diary from 1922-1927) - no content list

 

Allegory of Love

Contents:

Preface

1. Courtly Love
2. Allegory
3. The Romance of the Rose
4. Chaucer
5. Gower, Thomas Usk
6. Allegory as the Dominant Form
7. The Faerie Queene

Appendix I
Appendix II
Index

 

Christian Reflections

Contents:

Preface, by Walter Hooper

• Christianity and Literature
• Christianity and Culture
• Religion: Reality or Substitute?
• On Ethics
• De Futilitate
• The Poison of Subjectivism
• The Funeral of a Great Myth
• On Church Music
• Historicism
• The Psalms
• The Language of Religion
• Petitionary Prayer: A Problem without an Answer
• Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
• The Seeing Eye

 

Dark Tower

Contents:

1. The Dark Tower
   A Note on The Dark Tower
2. The Man Born Blind
3. The Shoddy Lands
4. Ministering Angels
5. Forms of Things Unknown
6. After Ten Years
   Notes on After Ten Years

 

Discarded Image

Contents:

Preface

1. The Medieval Situation
    
2. Reservations
    
3. Selected Materials: The Classical Period
   1. The Somnium Sciponis
   2. Lucan
   3. Statius. Claudian, and the Lady Natura
   4. Apuleius, De Deo Socratis
       
4. Selected Materials: The Seminal Period
   1. Chalcidius
   2. Macrobius
   3. Pseudo-Dionysius
   4. Boethius
       
5. The Heavens
   1. The Parts of the Universe
   2. Their Operations
   3. Their Inhabitants
       
6. The Longaevi
    
7. Earth and Her Inhabitants
   1. The Earth
   2. Beasts
   3. The Human Soul
   4. Rational
   5. Sensitive and Vegetable Soul
   6. Soul and Body
   7. The Human Body
   8. The Human Past
   9. The Seven Liberal Arts
       
8. The Influence of the Model

Epilogue
Index

 

English Literature in the 16th Century (OHEL)

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Book I: Late Medieval

1. The Close of the Middle Ages in Scotland
2. The Close of the Middle Ages in England

Book II: 'Drab'

1. Drab Age Prose: Religious Controversy and Translation
2. Drab Age Verse
3. Drab and Transitional Prose

Book III: 'Golden'

1. Sidney and Spenser
2. Prose in the 'Golden' Period
3. Verse in the 'Golden' Period

Epilogue: New Tendencies

Chronological Table
Bibliography
Index

 

Experiment in Criticism

Contents:

1. The Few and the Many
2. False Characterisations
3. How the Few and the Many use Pictures and Music
4. The Reading of the Unliterary
5. On Myth
6. The Meaning of Fantasy
7. On Realisms
8. On Misreading by the Literary
9. Survey
10. Poetry
11. The Experiment

Epilogue
Appendix: A Note on Oedipus

 

Four Loves

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Likings and Love for the Sub-Human
3. Affection
4. Friendship
5. Eros
6. Charity

 

God in the Dock

Contents:

Preface by Walter Hooper

PART I

1. Evil and God
2. Miracles
3. Dogma and the Universe
4. Answers to Questions on Christianity
5. Myth Became Fact
6. 'Horrid Red Things'
7. Religion and Science
8. The Laws of Nature
9. The Grand Miracle
10. Christian Apologetics
11. Work and Prayer
12. Man or Rabbit?
13. On the Transmission of Christianity
14. 'Miserable Offenders'
15. The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club
16. Religion without Dogma?
17. Some Thoughts
18. 'The Trouble with "X"...'
19. What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
20. The Pains of Animals
21. Is Theism Important?
22. Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger
23. Must Our Image of God Go?

PART II

24. Dangers of National Repentance
25. Two Ways with the Self
26. Meditation on the Third Commandment
27. On the Reading of Old Books
28. Two Lectures
29. Meditation in a Toolshed
30. Scraps
31. The Decline of Religion
32. Vivisection
33. Modern Translations of the Bible
34. Priestesses in the Church?
35. God in the Dock
36. Behind the Scenes
37. Revival or Decay?
38. Before We Can Communicate
39. Cross-Examination

PART III

40. 'Bulverism'
41. First and Second Things
42. The Sermon and the Lunch
43. The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
44. Xmas and Christmas
45. What Christmas Means to Me
46. Delinquents in the Snow
47. Is Progress Possible?
48. We Have No 'Right to Happiness'

PART IV

Letters
Index

 

Grief Observed
(four chapters, untitled)

 

Image & Imagination

Contents:

Preface by Walter Hooper
List of abbreviations

Part I: Reflections on Literature

1. The idea of an 'English School'
2. Our English syllabus
3. Image and imagination
4. Arundell Esdaile, The Sources of English Literature
5. W. P. Ker, Form and Style in Poetry: Lectures and Notes, ed. R. W. Chambers
6. Denis de Rougemont, Poetry and Society and Claude Chavasse, The Bride of Christ
7. Oliver Elton (1861-1945): an obituary
8. Howard Rollin Patch, The Other World, According to Descriptions in Medieval Literature
9. Werner Schwarz, Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation
10. Tragin ends: George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy
11. Eros on the loose: David Loth, The Erotic in Literature

Part II: The Inklings: Barfield, Tolkien and Williams

12. Who gaf me drink?: Owen Barfield, Romanticism Comes of Age
13. G. A. L. Burgeon (= Owen Barfield), This Ever Diverse Pair
14. A world for children: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
15. Professor Tolkien's hobbit: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
16. The gods return to earth: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings)
17. The dethronement of power: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings) and The Return of the Ring (being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings) 
18. Preface from Essays Presented to Charles Williams, ed. C. S. Lewis
19. A sacred poem: Charles Williams, Taliesen Through Logres
20. Charles Williams, Taliesen Through Logres
21. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945): an obituary

Part III: Reflections on Christianity and literature

22. A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century, ed. A. C. Bouquet
23. The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, ed. Lord David Cecil
24. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
25. Selected sermons: A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, ed. Evelyn Waugh
26. Foreword to Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments
27. Preface to Austin Farrer, A Faith of Our Own

Part IV: Classical literature

28. Odysseus sails again: The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
29. Ajax and others: John Jones, On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy
30. Lucretius
31. T. R. Henn, Longinus and English Criticism
32. Helen M. Barrett, Boethius: Some Aspects of his Times and Work

Part V: Medieval and Renaissance literature

33. Ruth Mohl, The Three Estates in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
34. J. W. H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism: The Medieval Phase
35. Arthuriana: Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative Study, ed. R. S. Loomis
36. Introduction from Selections from La?amon's Brut, ed. G. L. Brook
37. Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love, with introduction, translation, and notes by John Jay Perry
38. Rhyme and reason: Dorothy L. Sayers, The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement
39. Alan M. F. Gunn, The Mirror of Love: A Reinterpretation of The Romance of the Rose
40. The English prose Morte
41. Leone Ebreo, The Philosophy of Love (Dialoghi d'Amore), trans. J. Friedeberg-Seeley and Jean H. Barnes, and intro. Cecil Roth
42. E. K. Chambers, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Some Collected Studies
43. M. Pauline Parker, The Allegory of the Faerie Queene
44. John Vyvyan, Shakespeare and the Rose of Love

Part VI: Milton and later English literature

45. Logan Pearsall Smith, Milton and his Modern Critics
46. Douglas Bush, Paradise Lost in Our Time: Some Comments
47. H. W. Garrod, Collins
48. Hugh Kingsmill, Mathew Arnold
49. Evelyn Waugh, Rossetti: His Life and Works
50. Boswell's bugbear: Sir John Hawkins, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bertram Hylton Davis
51. Poetry and exegesis: Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
52. The Sagas and modern life—Morris, Mr Yeats, and the originals: Dorothy M. Hoare, The Works of Morris and of Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature
53. Haggard rides again: Morton Cohen, Rider Haggard: His Life and Works

Notes
Index

 

Mere Christianity

Contents:

Book 1: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe

1. The Law of Human Nature
2. Some Objections
3. The Reality of the Law
4. What Lies Behind the Law
5. We Have Cause to Be Uneasy

Book 2: What Christians Believe

1. The Rival Conceptions of God
2. The Invasion
3. The Shocking Alternative
4. The Perfect Penitent
5. The Practical Conclusion

Book 3: Christian Behaviour

1. The Three Parts of Morality
2. The 'Cardinal Virtues'
3. Social Morality
4. Morality and Psychoanalysis
5. Sexual Morality
6. Christian Marriage
7. Forgiveness
8. The Great Sin
9. Charity
10. Hope
11. Faith
12. Faith

Book 4: Beyond Personality: or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity

1. Making and Begetting
2. The Three-Personal God
3. Time and Beyond Time
4. Good Infection
5. The Obstinate Toy Soldiers
6. Two Notes
7. Let's Pretend
8. Is Christianity Hard or Easy?
9. Counting the Cost
10. Nice People or New Men
11. The New Men

 

Miracles

Contents:

1. The Scope of this Book
2. The Naturalist and the Supernaturalist
3. The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism
4. Answers to Misgivings
5. A Chapter of Red Herrings
6. Miracles and the Laws of Nature
7. A Chapter Not Strictly Necessary
8. 'Horrid Red Things'
9. Christianity and 'Religion'
10. The Propriety off Miracles
11. On Probability
12. The Grand Miracle
13. Miracles of the Old Creation
14. Miracles of the New Creation
15. Epilogue

Appendix A: On the Words 'Spirit' and 'Spiritual'
Appendix B: On 'Special Providences'

 

Narrative Poems

Contents:

Preface

• Dymer
• Launcelot
• The Nameless Isle
• The Queen of Drum

Notes

 

On Stories

Contents:

Preface

1. On Stories
2. The Novels of Charles Williams
3. A Tribute to E. R. Eddison
4. On Three Ways of Writing for Children
5. Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's to Be Said
6. On Juvenile Tastes
7. It All Began with a Picture
8. On Science Fiction
9. A Reply to Professor Haldane
10. The Hobbit
11. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
12. A Panegyric for Dorothy L. Sayers
13. The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard
14. George Orwell
15. The Death of Words
16. The Parthenon and the Optative
17. Period Criticism
18. Different Tastes in Literature
19. On Criticism
20. Unreal Estates

 

Personal Heresy
A debate between Lewis & EMW Tillyard (no title headings)

Contents:

Preface

1. C. S. Lewis
2. E. M. W. Tillyard
3. C. S. Lewis
4. E. M. W. Tillyard
5. C. S. Lewis
6. E. M. W. Tillyard

Note

 

Pilgrim’s Regress

Contents:

Book One THE DATA

1. The Rules
2. The Island
3. The Eastern Mountains
4. Leah for Rachel
5. Ichabod
6. Quem Quaeritis in Sepulchro? Non Est Hic

Book Two THRILL

1. Dixit Insipiens
2. The Hill
3. A Little Southward
4. Soft Going
5. Leah For Rachel
6. Ichabod
7. Non Est Hic
8. Great Promises

Book Three THROUGH DARKEST ZEITGEISTHEIM

1. Eschropolis
2. A South Wind
3. Freedom of Thought
4. The Man Behind the Gun
5. Under Arrest
6. Poisoning the Wells
7. Facing the Facts
8. Parrot Disease
9. The Giant Slayer

Book Four BACK TO THE ROAD

1. Let Grill Be Grill
2. Archtype and Ectype
3. Esse Is Percipi
4. Escape

Book Five THE GRAND CANYON

1. The Grand Canyon
2. Mother Kirk’s Story
3. The Self-Sufficiency of Virtue
4. Mr. Sensible
5. Table Talk
6. Drudge
7. The Gaucherie of Virtue

Book Six NORTHWARD ALONG THE CANYON

1. First Steps to the North
2. Three Pale Men
3. Neo-Angular
4. Humanist
5. Food from the North
6. Furthest North
7. Fools’ Paradise

Book Seven SOUTHWARD ALONG THE CANYON

1. Virtue is Sick
2. John Leading
3. The Main Road Again
4. Going South
5. Tea on the Lawn
6. The House of Wisdom
7. Across the Canyon by Moonlight
8. This Side By Sunlight
9. Wisdom – Exoteric
10. Wisdom – Esoteric
11. Mum’s the Word
12. More Wisdom

Book Eight AT BAY

1. Two Kinds of Monist
2. John Led
3. John Forgets Himself
4. John Finds His Voice
5. Food At a Cost
6. Caught
7. The Hermit
8. History’s Words
9. Matter of Fact
10. Archtype and Ectype

Book Nine ACROSS THE CANYON

1. Across the Canyon by the Inner Light
2. This Side By Lightning
3. This Side by the Darkness
4. Securus Te Projice
5. Across the Canyon
6. Nella Sua Voluntade

Book Ten THE REGRESS

1. The Same Yet Different
2. The Synthetic Man
3. Limbo
4. The Black Hole
5. Superbia
6. Ignorantia
7. Luxuria
8. The Northern Dragon
9. The Southern Dragon
10. The Brook

Afterword to the Third Edition

 

Poems

Contents:

Part I: The Hidden Country

• A Confession
• Impenitence
• A Cliche Came Out of Its Cage
• Pan's Purge
• Narnian Suite
• The Magician and the Dryad
• The True Nature of Gnomes
• The Birth of Language
• The Planets
• Pindar Sang
• Hemione in the House of Paulina
• Young King Cole
• The Prodigality of Firdausi
• Le Roi S'Amuse
• Vitrea Circe
• The Landing
• The Day with a White Mark
• Donkey's Delight
• The Small Man Orders His Wedding
• The Country of the Blind
• On Being Human
• The Ecstasy
• The Saboteuse
• The Last of the Winee
• As One Oldster to Another
• Ballade of Dead Gentlemen
• The Adam Unparadised
• The Adam at Night
• Solomon
• The Late Passenger
• The Turn of the Tide

Part II: The Backward Glance

• Evolutionary Hymn
• Prelude to Space: An Epithalamium
• Science-Fiction Cradlesong
• An Expostulation: Against Too Many Writers of Science Fiction
• Odora Can Vis: A Defence of Certain Modern Biographers and Critics
• On a Vulgar Error
• The Future of Forestry
• Lines During a General Election
• The Condemned
• The Genuine Article
• On the Atomic Bomb: Metrical Experiment
• To the Author of Flowering Rifle
• To Roy Campbell
• Coronation March
• 'Man is a Lumpe Where All Beasts Kneaded Be'
• On a Picture by Chirico
• On a Theme from Nicolas of Cusa
• What the Bird Said Early in the Year
• The Salamander
• Infatuation
• Vowels and Sirens
• The Prudent Jailer
• Aubade
• Pattern
• After Aristotle
• Reason
• To Andrew Marvell
• Lines Written in a Copy of Milton's Works
• Scholar's Melancholy

Part III: A Larger World

• Wormwood
• Virtue's Independence
• Posturing
• Deception
• Deadly Sins
• The Dragon Speaks
• Dragon-Slayer
• Lilith
• A Pageant Played in Vain
• When the Curtain's Down
• Divine Justice
• Eden's Courtesy
• The Meteorite
• Two Kinds of Memory
• Re-Adjustment
• Nearly They Stood
• Relapse
• Late Summer
• To a Friend
• To Charles Williams
• After Vain Pretense
• Angel's Song
• Joys That Sting
• Old Poets Remembered
• As the Ruin Falls

Part IV: Further Up and Further In

• Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians
• Noon's Intensity
• Sweet Desire
• Caught
• Forbidden Pleasure
• The Naked Seed
• Scazons
• Legion
• Pilgrim's Problem
• Sonnet
• The Phoenix
• The Nativity
• Prayer
• Love's as Warm as Tears
• No Beauty We Could Desire
• Stephen to Lazarus
• Five Sonnets
• Evensong
• The Apologist's Evening Prayer
• Footnote to All Prayers
• After Prayers, Lie Cold

Part V: A Farewell to Shadowlands

• Epigrams and Epitaphs

Appendix

 

Preface to Paradise Lost

Contents:

1. Epic Poetry
2. Is Criticism Possible?
3. Primary Epic
4. The Technique of Primary Epic
5. The Subject of Primary Epic
6. Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic
7. The Style of Secondary Epic
8. Defence of This Style
9. The Doctrine of the Unchanging Human Heart
10. Milton and St. Augustine
11. Hierarchy
12. The Theology of Paradise Lost
13. Satan
14. Satan's Followers
15. The Mistake About Milton's Angels
16. Adam and Eve
17. Unfallen Sexuality
18. The Fall
19. Conclusion

Appendix
Index

 

Present Concerns

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Necessity of Chivalry
2. Equality
3. Three Kinds of Men
4. My First School
5. Is English Doomed?
6. Democratic Education
7. A Dream
8. Blimpophobia
9. Private Bates
10. Hedonics
11. After Priggery—What?
12. Modern Man and His Categories of Thought
13. Talking About Bicycles
14. On Living in an Atomic Age
15. The Empty Universe
16. Prudery and Philology
17. Interim Report
18. Is History Bunk?
19. Sex in Literature

 

Problem of Pain

Contents:

Preface

1. Introductory
2. Divine Omnipotence
3. Divine Goodness
4. Human Wickedness
5. The Fall of Man
6. Human Pain
7. Human Pain, CONTINUED
8. Hell
9. Animal Pain
10. Heaven

Appendix

 

Reflections on the Psalms

Contents:

1. Introductory
2. 'Judgement' in the Psalms
3. The Cursings
4. Death in the Psalms
5. 'The Fair Beauty of the Lord'
6. 'Sweeter Than Honey'
7. Connivance
8. Nature
9. A Word About Praising
10. Second Meanings
11. Scripture
12. Second Meanings in the Psalms

Appendix I—Selected Psalms

Appendix II—Psalms Discussed or Mentioned

 

Selected Literary Essays

Contents:

Preface by 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 Authorized Version
10. The Vision of John Bunyan
11. Addison
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

 

Spenser’s Images of Life

Contents:

Preface
Introduction

1. The False Cupid
2. Antitypes to the False Cupid
3. Belphoebe, Amoret, and the Garden of Adonis
4. The Image of Evil
5. Mutability
6. The Image of Good
7. Britomart's Dream
8. Faceless Knights
9. The Misery of Florimell
10. The Story of Arthur

Index
Plates 
     C. S. Lewis's manuscript, folio 1
     C. S. Lewis's manuscript, folio 35

 

Spirits in Bondage

Contents:

Prologue

Part One: The Prison House

1. Satan Speaks
2. French Nocturne (Monchy-le-Preux)
3. The Satyr
4. Victory
5. Irish Nocturne
6. Spooks
7. Apology
8. Ode for New Year's Day
9. Night
10. To Sleep
11. In Prison
12. De Profundis
13. Satan Speaks
14. The Witch
15. Dungeon Grates
16. The Philosopher
17. The Ocean Strand
18. Noon
19. Milton Read Again (in Surrey)
20. Sonnet
21. The Autumn Morning

Part Two: Hesitation

22. L'Apprenti Sorcier
23. Alexandrines
24. In Praise of Solid People

Part Three: The Escape

25. Song of the Pilgrms
26. Song
27. The Ass
28. Ballade Mystique
29. Night
30. Oxford
31. Hymn (for Boys' Voices)
32. 'Our Daily Bread'
33. How He Saw Angus the God
34. The Roads
35. Hesperus
36. The Star Bath
37. Tu Ne Quaesieris
38. Lullaby
39. World's Desire
40. Death in Battle

 

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Contents:

Preface, by Walter Hooper

1. De Audiendis Poetis
2. The Genesis of a Medieval Book
3. Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages
4. Dante's Similes
5. Imagery in the Last Eleven Cantos of Dante's Comedy
6. Dante's Statius
7. The Morte Darthur
8. Tasso
9. Edmund Spenser, 1552-99
10. On Reading The Faerie Queene
11. Neoplatonism in the Poetry of Spenser
12. Spenser's Cruel Cupid
13. Genius and Genius
14. A Note on Comus

Additional Editorial Notes

Index

 

Studies in Words

Contents:

Preface

1. INTRODUCTION
2. NATURE (with Phusis, Kind, Physical etc.)
3. SAD (with Gravis)
4. WIT (with Ingenium)
5. FREE (with  Eleutherios, Liberal, Frank etc.)
6. SENSE (with Sentence, Sensibility and Sensible)
7. SIMPLE
8. CONSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUS
9. WORLD
10. LIFE
11. I DARE SAY
12. AT THE FRINGE OF LANGUAGE

Index

 

Surprised by Joy

Contents:

Preface

1. The First Years
2. Concentration Camp
3. Mountbracken and Campbell
4. I Broaden My Mind
5. Renaissance
6. Bloodery
7. Light and Shade
8. Release
9. The Great Knock
10. Fortune's Smile
11. Check
12. Guns and Good Company
13. The New Look
14. Checkmate
15. The Beginning

 

Weight of Glory

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Walter Hooper
Preface to the Original Edition

• The Weight of Glory
• Learning in War-Time
• Why I Am Not a Pacifist
• Transposition
• Is Theology Poetry?
• The Inner Ring
• Membership
• On Forgiveness
• A Slip of the Tongue

 

World’s Last Night

Contents:

1. The Efficacy of Prayer
2. On Obstinacy in Belief
3. Lillies That Fester
4. Screwtape Proposes a Toast
5. Good Work and Good Works
6. Religion and Rocketry
7. The World's Last Night