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Acknowledgments
pp. 34–35: 5 lines from The Earliest English Poems translated and introduced by Michael Alexander (Penguin Classics 1966, Third edition 1991) copyright © Michael Alexander, 1966, 1977, 1991. Used by permission.

p. 50: Extract from Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English People. “The History” translated by Leo Sherley-Price and revised by R. E. Latham, translation of the minor works, new Introduction and Notes by D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics 1955, Revised edition 1968, 1990). Translation copyright © Leo Shirley-Price, 1955, 1968. Introduction copyright © D. H. Farmer, 1990. Translation of “Bede’s Letter to Egbert” and “Cuthbert’s Letter on the Illness and Death of the Venerable Bede” copyright © D. H. Farmer, 1990. Used by permission.

pp. 145–146: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by C. S. Lewis (1963, 1973). By permission of Oxford University Press.

p. 159: Essays Presented to Charles Williams by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1966. Extracts reprinted by permission.

pp. 126, 131, 132: Extract from Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer. Copyright © Nick Spencer, 2014. Used by permission of Bloomsbury.

pp. 185–186: The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1953.

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