The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931Harper Collins, 2004 M06 29 - 1072 páginas The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals a unique intellectual journey. The first of a three-volume collection, this volume contains letters from Lewis's boyhood, his army days in World War I, and his early academic life at Oxford. Here we encounter the creative, imaginative seeds that gave birth to some of his most famous works. At age sixteen, Lewis begins writing to Arthur Greeves, a boy his age in Belfast who later becomes one of his most treasured friends. Their correspondence would continue over the next fifty years. In his letters to Arthur, Lewis admits that he has abandoned the Christian faith. "I believe in no religion," he says. "There is absolutely no proof for any of them." Shortly after arriving at Oxford, Lewis is called away to war. Quickly wounded, he returns to Oxford, writing home to describe his thoughts and feelings about the horrors of war as well as the early joys of publication and academic success. In 1929 Lewis writes to Arthur of a friend ship that was to greatly influence his life and writing. "I was up till 2:30 on Monday talking to the Anglo-Saxon professor Tolkien who came back with me to College ... and sat discoursing of the gods and giants & Asgard for three hours ..." Gradually, as Lewis spends time with Tolkien and other friends, he admits in his letters to a change of view on religion. In 1930 he writes, "Whereas once I would have said, 'Shall I adopt Christianity', I now wait to see whether it will adopt me ..." The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume I offers an inside perspective to Lewis's thinking during his formative years. Walter Hooper's insightful notes and biographical appendix of all the correspondents make this an irreplaceable reference for those curious about the life and work of one of the most creative minds of the modern era. |
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... probably guessed , I chose the first . I invited an imaginary friend to stay at Castlerock . As that would be impossible in verse I changed it to Moville , which is a little village near the former , as you remember . I treated the ...
... 1913. His poetry appeared in a single volume in 1912 , and this was probably what Lewis was reading . 10 Emily Brontë , Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) . was in despair : how was I to go back 58 C.S. LEWIS COLLECTED LETTERS.
... probably furnish me with a dignified & suggestive theme . But , we shall see all in good time . Mrs Kirkpatrick , the lady of this house , had not played to me at the time of writing my last epistle . But since then she has given me a ...
... of Norse mythology . 45 The ' Honeymooners ' were probably Arthur's brother , Thomas Greeves , and Winifred Lynas , who were married on 22 September 1914 . the war at all : and the truest service that 82 C.S. LEWIS COLLECTED LETTERS.
... any local gossip , for the benefit of yours sincerely Jack Lewis 65 This was probably Mrs Kirkpatrick's ' theatrical ' friend , Miss MacMullen , whom Lewis mentioned to his father on 13 October . TO HIS FATHER ( LP IV : 246 ) : 95 1914.