Image and Imagination

This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first time.

Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and students of fantasy.

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