C. S. Lewis Book

[bookslover]

Today, at a used book store I frequent, I found a copy of C. S. Lewis's big book: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama: The Completion of the Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1944 (Volume 3 of the Oxford History of English Literature series) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954). It's in excellent shape and was a bargain: $25.

I've always been interested in reading Lewis's non-Christian writings, as being a literary critic, literary historian, and educator was his day job. And there's more of that than you might think.

In any case, it was a good day at the book store.

 

[Bill The Baptist]

People often forget that Lewis was a premier scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature. Many believe that it was his Christian beliefs, and not his ability as a scholar, that kept him from attaining a full professorship at Oxford. He finally did attain the position when he moved to Cambridge.

 

[py3ak]

It is much better than some of the volumes in the OHEL.