Review published in Medium Aevum 20 (1951), pp. 93–4.
Published in C. S. Lewis, Rehabilitations and Other Essays (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), pp. 57–77; originally read to a joint meeting of the Classical and English Associations (date unknown).
On further consideration I should regard the claims of medieval Latin as almost equal to those of Old French. It would not, at present, be easy to put the relevant texts in the hands of students, and they are hard to translate.
See, on this point, J. R. R. Tolkien's indispensable Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics.
Published in Rehabilitations and Other Essays (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), pp. 79–93; originally read to the English Society at Oxford (date unknown).
The natural end. It would have been out of place here to say what I believe about Man's supernatural end or to explain why I think the natural end should be pursued although, in isolation from the supernatural, it cannot be fully realized.
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 47 (16 May 1929), p. 633.
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 47 (6 December 1928), pp. 283–4.
Review published in Theology, vol. 40 (June 1940), pp. 459–61.
Published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 63 (21 June 1945), pp. 318–19. Elton had been Professor of English at Liverpool University and was best known for his six-volume work A Survey of English Literature (1730–1880) (London: E. Arnold, 1912–28).
Review published in Medium Aevum 20 (1951), pp. 93–4.
Review published in Medium Aevum, vol. 26 (1957), pp. 115–17.
See The Apologye of Syr Thomas More, ed. A. I. Taft, Early English Text Society (1930), p. 13.
Reviewed in Encounter, vol. 18 (February 1962), pp. 97–101.
Review published in The Observer (Weekend Review), no. 8905 (4 March 1962), p. 30.
Review published in Time and Tide, vol. 31 (25 March 1950), p. 286.
Review published in The Times Literary Supplement (2 October 1937), p. 714.
Review published in The Times (8 October 1937), p. 20.
Review published in Time and Tide, vol. 35 (14 August 1954), pp. 1082–3.
Review published in Time and Tide, vol. 36 (22 October 1955), pp. 1373–4.
Published in C. S. Lewis (ed.), Essays Presented to Charles Williams (London: Oxford University Press, 1947), pp. v–xiv.
Review published in Theology, vol. 38 (April 1939), pp. 268–76.
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 64 (14 March 1946), pp. 248–50.
Published in La France Libre, no. 7.42 (15 April 1944). Translated by G. E. M. Lippiatt.
Published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 63 (24 March 1945), p. 265.
Published in Theology, vol. 39 (December 1939), pp. 467–8.
Review published in The Review of English Studies, vol. 17 (January 1941), pp. 95–102.
But we must not decide a priori which elements are part of the masquerade and which are a more direct expression of the poet's belief. The corporeality of Milton's angels, which looks to a modern so like mere machinery, must be judged in the light of what we read in the Platonic Theologians such as Ficino or Henry More. It is up-to-date pneumatology of Milton's day and may well have been seriously believed by him.
Review published in Theology, vol. 43 (October 1941), pp. 248–9.
Review published in the Times Literary Supplement (20 May 1949), p. 332 (unsigned).
Published in Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953), pp. 7–11.
Published in Austin Farrer, A Faith of Our Own (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1960), pp. 7–10.
Review published in The Sunday Telegraph, no. 84 (9 September 1962), p. 6.
Review published in The Sunday Telegraph, no. 98 (16 September 1962), p. 6.
This essay on Lucretius (c. 94–c. 54 BC), is published here for the first time. The draft of it is written on blank pages interleaved and bound into Lewis's copy of De Rerum Natura, now in the Rare Book Collection of the Wilson Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 53 (6 December 1934), p. 264.
Review published in Medium Aevum, vol. 10 (February 1941), pp. 29–34.
Review published in Medium Aevum, vol. 3 (February 1934), pp. 69–70.
Published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 62 (10 February 1944), p. 158.
Review published in The Cambridge Review, vol. 81 (13 February 1960), pp. 355, 357.
Published in Selections from La
amon's Brut, ed. by G. L. Brook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. vii‒xv.
M = Madden's edition.
In the Review of English Studies, May 1960.
Review published in The Review of English Studies, vol. 19 (January 1943), pp. 77–9.
Review published in The Sunday Telegraph, no. 148 (1 December 1963), p. 18.
Review published in Medium Aevum, vol. 32 (1953), pp. 27–31.
Published in Essays on Malory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. 7–28.
The Works of Thomas Malory, ed. E. Vinaver (Oxford 1947), p. xxi. [In references to Malory in this volume W denotes this edition and C that of Caxton. Numbers refer to Book and chapter of C and to page, or page and line, of W.]
Op. cit., p. xvi.
Vinaver (op. cit., p. 1569 n. on 1027, 30–32) prefers a different explanation.
Op. cit., pp. xlviii–liii.
Reason of Church Government, Preface, Book 2.
De Vulgari Eloquentia, I. x. 2.
Discorsi Poetici, II.
Apologia in difesa della Ger. Lib.
Op. cit., p. lii.
At least I think this must be the passage Vinaver has in mind on p. 1524.
Luke iii. 14.
I don't believe this means ‘even though he takes’. Rather ‘unless he were to take’; i.e. he is (and will remain) like us unless he should take more pains than he's taking at present.
‘Form in the Morte Darthur’. Medium Aevum xxi (1952), pp. 14–24.
E.g., at C VIII. 9 (W 385.6–8) where he turns Tristram from a cad into an ordinary amorous young man.
Alliterative Morte 3393–3402, ed. E. Brock (Early English Text Society, 1865).
Review published in The Times Literary Supplement (15 January 1938), p. 36. Leone Ebreo (c. 1465–c. 1523) was a Portuguese poet and philosopher.
Review published in Medium Aevum, vol. 3 (October 1934), pp. 237–40.
Review published in The Cambridge Review, vol. 81 (11 June 1960), pp. 643, 645.
Review published in The Listener, vol. 64 (7 July 1960), p. 30.
Review published in The Cambridge Review (21 February 1941), p. 280.
Published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 65 (13 February 1947), pp. 215–17.
Published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 47 (16 May 1929), p. 633 on the English poet William Collins (1721–1759).
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 47 (15 September 1928), p. 177.
Review published in The Oxford Magazine, vol. 47 (25 October 1928), pp. 66, 69 (unsigned).
Review published in The Sunday Telegraph, no. 61 (1 April 1961), p. 8. John Hawkins (1719–1789) was a friend of Samuel Johnson.
Reviewed in Encounter, vol. 20 (June 1963), pp. 74–6.
Review published in The Times Literary Supplement (29 May 1937), p. 409 (unsigned).
Reviewed in Time and Tide, vol. 41 (3 September 2960), pp. 1044–5.