INDEX
A
Abolition of Man, The 231, 368
Addison’s Walk, Magdalen College 147–148
Aldwinckle, Stella 250–252, 259
Allegory of Love, The 167, 182–186, 231, 302
Anscombe, Elizabeth 252–259
Aslan 267, 271, 273, 278, 281–282, 287–296, 302, 305
Attlee, Clement 69
Augustine of Hippo 104, 202, 302
B
Ballard Lectures, Bangor 229
Barfield, Owen 102–103, 120, 143–144, 176, 183–184, 187, 314, 325, 348, 359, 375
Barry, Canon John 120–121
Baynes, Pauline 265, 268, 270–271, 286
Belfast, Northern Ireland 4–6, 9–10, 13–14, 94, 120–121
Bennett, Henry Stanley 311
Bide, Peter 335–338
Blake, Maureen (née Moore, later Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs) 58, 66, 84, 86, 91, 96–98, 100, 125, 127, 194, 245–246, 265, 333, 348, 359
British Broadcasting Corporation 205–206, 209–212, 218, 239, 259, 310, 316
broadcast talks 13, 205, 208, 210, 212–213, 215, 218–219, 227–228, 239, 260, 292–293, 321, 330, 369–370
Brooke, Rupert 63
Bunyan, John 169
C
Calabria, Don Giovanni 248, 258–259
Cambridge University 101, 118, 260, 310–320, 348, 350, 352, 356, 369
Campbell College, Belfast 27–28, 35
Cecil, Lord David 243
Chambers, Sir Edmund 180
Cherbourg School, Malvern 26, 28–30
Chesterton, G. K. 132, 225, 279, 370, 375
Churchill Hospital 337
Churchill, Winston 248
Clark Lectures, Cambridge 229, 231–232, 316
Claypole, Gerald Henry 54–56
Coghill, Nevill 104, 109–110, 175–176
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 104, 143
Colson, Charles “Chuck” Wendell 373
Curtis Brown, Spencer 326, 342–343
D
Davenport, Richard 288
Davidman, Joy 9, 194, 229, 305, 320–340, 341–347, 350, 352
Dent, J. M. 169
de Pass, Denis Howard 58
Discarded Image, The 167, 302, 320
Dulles, Cardinal Avery 370
Dyson, Hugo 147–149, 151, 175, 176, 200, 281
E
Eagle and Child, The (public house) 179, 181, 242, 249, 353, 369
Eliot, T. S. 106–107, 132, 158, 171, 343
Empson, William 166
English Language and Literature at Oxford University 98–100
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama 231–232, 248, 302, 310
Everlasting Man, The (G. K. Chesterton) 225, 279
Experiment in Criticism, An 320
F
Faber & Faber (publishers) 342–343
Farquharson, A. S. L. 100, 106, 110
Farrer, Austin 203, 210, 222, 259, 320, 341, 355, 359
Foord-Kelcey, Edward 155
Four Loves, The 73, 178, 317, 320, 328, 339, 340, 341
Fowler, Alastair 351
Fox, Adam 180–181
Freud, Sigmund 147
G
Gardner, Helen 186, 248, 250, 311–313
Geoffrey Bles (publisher) 212, 217, 326, 342
Gordon, George 104, 109–110, 192
Graham, Billy 372–373
Graves, Robert 63
Great Divorce, The 10, 232, 323
Green, Roger Lancelyn 328–329, 340, 342, 369
Greeves, Arthur 35–37, 42–43, 54, 61–63, 67, 70–74, 84, 102, 143, 144, 148–149, 155, 158, 169, 204, 246, 259, 330, 334, 348, 354, 355
Gresham, David 352
Gresham, Douglas 323, 354, 357, 359
Grief Observed, A 204, 341–347
Griffiths, Dom Bede 210
H
Haldane, J. B. S. 234–236, 252–253
Hamilton, Thomas 7
Harwood, Arthur Cecil 348, 355, 367
Havard, Robert E. 180, 320, 333, 350
Head, Ronald Edwin 359
Henry, Carl F. H. 260, 372–373
Hobbit, The 175, 197–198, 264, 277
Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford 156–157, 359
Home Guard, Oxford 192–193, 196
Hooper, Walter xiii, 353–358, 363, 365, 367–369
Horse and His Boy, The 273, 282, 299
I
Idea of the Holy, The (Rudolf Otto) 288
Inklings, the 175–182, 194–197, 200, 204, 242, 249, 328, 353, 369
K
Kaufman, Bel 322
Keble College, Oxford 56–60, 64
Kilby, Clyde S. 368
Kilns, The 126–127, 161, 163, 192, 194, 245–247, 312, 324, 326, 328, 332–333, 338–339, 348, 350, 354, 356–358, 364
Kirkpatrick, William T. 6, 30–32, 35, 37–44, 46, 164, 266
Kreeft, Peter 370
L
Lamb and Flag, The (public house) 353
Last Battle, The 266, 271, 274, 282, 299, 300, 304–305
Lawlor, John 164–165
Lean, Edward Tangye 177
Letts, Winifred Mary 55
Lewis, Albert 5–8, 14–15, 17–18, 22, 24, 27, 30–31, 34–35, 40, 46, 54, 66–68, 71, 73, 84–86, 88, 95, 118–124
Lewis, Florence (née Hamilton) 7–8, 15, 20–24, 58, 96, 118
Lewis, Warren Hamilton (Warnie) 8, 14–15, 17–18, 21–22, 24, 25, 27–28, 30–31, 34–35, 37, 42, 71, 76, 95, 120–122, 124–127, 152–153, 155–157, 161, 163, 165, 176, 179, 192, 196, 240, 245–247, 249, 257, 259, 312, 324–325, 329, 332, 333, 337, 348, 350, 352, 354–360
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The 15, 138, 181, 256, 265–274, 278, 280–283, 292–296, 299, 303–305, 377
Little Lea 14–15, 17–18, 36, 121–122, 124–125, 161
Lloyd-Jones, Martyn 365
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 18
Lord of the Rings, The (J. R. R. Tolkien) 130, 181, 197–200, 246, 273–274, 279–280, 291, 352, 366
Lucas, J. R. 256
M
Macan, Reginald 45–46, 89–90, 106
MacDonald, George 42–43, 141, 202, 270, 375
Magdalen College, Oxford 92–93, 109–112, 113–118, 127, 145, 162–167, 175, 196, 218, 248, 310, 314–315, 359
Magdalene College, Cambridge 311, 314–315, 356
Magician’s Nephew, The 23–24, 266, 272–278, 282, 299, 328–329
Malvern College 25–28, 30–37, 50, 53, 90
Martlets, the 61
Matthews, W. R. 207
Mere Christianity 172–173, 213, 218–229, 233, 255, 281–282, 290, 310, 318, 330, 364–365, 370–373, 377
Merton College, Oxford 127–128, 350
Merton Professorship of English Literature 175, 243
Milton, John 163, 166, 189–190, 202, 225, 229–230, 292
Miracles 233, 252–253, 256, 260, 318, 323
Moore, Edward Francis Courtenay (“Paddy”) 57–59, 64–67, 70, 72, 75
Moore, Janie (Mrs. Moore) 58–59, 64, 67–68, 70, 73–76, 84–89, 92, 95–98, 100, 105, 116–117, 122–123, 125–127, 161, 194, 216–217, 245–248, 257, 259, 265, 333, 337
Moore, Maureen: see Blake, Maureen
More, Paul Elmer 139
N
Narnia 10, 23–24, 158, 181, 190, 231–232, 237, 254–255, 260, 263–283, 285–305, 310, 328–329, 365–367, 376–378
Nesbit, Edith 269–270
Nobel Prize in Literature x, 351–352
Norse mythology 29, 36, 128–129, 175, 197
O
Otto, Rudolf 288–289
Oxford University 44–47, 50, 52–63, 79–83, 87–95, 98–112, 113–118, 127–129, 137, 162–169, 175, 177–178, 180–181, 191, 196, 206, 216, 218, 237, 239, 243–245, 247–252, 309–311, 314–315, 358–359, 369, 375
Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps 46, 53–56
Oxford University Press 177, 183, 194, 230–231, 248
P
Paradise Lost (John Milton) 56, 166, 189, 225, 229–230, 292
Phantastes (George MacDonald) 42, 141
Phillips, J. B. 353
Pilgrim’s Regress, The 16, 158, 169–175, 277, 318, 368
Pittenger, Norman 241
Pitter, Ruth 178, 305, 321, 324, 330, 332
Place of the Lion, The (Charles Williams) 177, 183, 287
Preface to “Paradise Lost,” A 56, 189, 225, 229–230
Prince Caspian 274, 282, 299, 305
Problem of Pain, The 132, 196–197, 200–206, 222, 233–236, 259, 288, 292, 344–345
pseudonyms, Lewis’s use of 63, 76, 132, 343
Q
Queen’s College, Belfast 40
Quick, Oliver Chase 217
R
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford 242, 341
Ransom Trilogy, the 42, 233–238, 255, 343
Reflections on the Psalms 317, 320, 328, 339, 341
Riddell Memorial Lectures, Newcastle 229, 231
Riez du Vinage 71
Royal Society of Literature 244
S
Sadler, Sir Michael 106
Sassoon, Siegfried 63
Sayer, George 25, 75, 164, 321, 324, 356, 359, 369
Sayers, Dorothy L. 177–178, 217, 222, 246, 251, 334, 336, 375
Screwtape Letters, The 216–218, 232, 258, 282, 323
Shelburne, Mary Willis 331, 354
Silver Chair, The 282, 299, 301–302
Simpson, Diane 263
Socratic Club 251–252, 256–259, 277, 365
Somerset Light Infantry 65–66, 71
Somerville, Martin Ashworth 58
Space Trilogy: see Ransom Trilogy, the
Spenser, Edmund 12, 29, 178, 185, 190, 256, 288, 297–298, 350
Spirits in Bondage 61, 63–64, 69–70, 76, 80, 85, 201
Steiner, Rudolf 102
St. Mark’s Church, Dundela, Belfast 7–8, 41, 120–121, 287
Stott, John R. W. 211, 372, 373, 374
Surprised by Joy 25, 29, 31, 34, 36, 50–51, 96, 122–124, 133–134, 136–138, 140–147, 152–156, 318, 344, 355
Sutton, Alexander Gordon 58
T
Till We Have Faces 124, 158, 219, 320, 328, 341
Tillyard, E. M. W. 189–190
Tolkien, J. R. R. 127–130, 143, 146–151, 155, 175–182, 194–200, 217, 229, 232, 240, 242–243, 246, 249, 264, 266, 270, 279–281, 309, 311–312, 320, 329–330, 337, 339, 350–352, 359, 369–370, 375, 376
Tynan, Kenneth 166
V
Voyage of the “Dawn Treader,” The 282, 291, 299
W
Wade Center, Wheaton College, Illinois 323, 368
Wagner, Richard 29, 73, 197, 271, 297
Walsh, Chad 218, 324, 363–365, 376
Ward, Michael 296–300
Warren, Sir Herbert 93, 111, 114–115
Welch, James 205–206
Wells, H. G. 17, 134, 233–234, 275
Wheaton College, Illinois 323, 368, 375
Whipsnade Zoo 152–156
William Collins & Sons (publisher) 367–368
Williams, Charles 176–177, 183, 194–197, 230, 242, 249, 269, 287, 338–339, 375
Willink, Sir Henry 311–313
Wilson, Frank 109–110, 243, 311
Wind in the Willows, The (Kenneth Grahame) 289