Image and Imagination
Essays and Reviews

New collection of literary-critical essays and reviews of C. S. Lewis, including previously unpublished and long-unavailable works.

C. S. Lewis (Author), Walter Hooper (Edited by)

9781107639270, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 November 2013

391 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg

'Almost nothing Lewis wrote is without apercu, often unexpected, always cogently expressed.' Times Literary Supplement

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.

Part I. Reflections on Literature
Part II. The Inklings
Part of The Lord of the Rings)
Part of The Lord of the Rings)
The Return of the King (being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings)
Part of The Lord of the Rings)
Part III. Reflections on Christianity
Part IV. Classical Literature
Part V. Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Part VI. Milton and Later English Literature.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: general [DSB]