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Abercrombie, Lascelles Mary and the Bramble, 82n; Sale of St Thomas, 82n; men. 82, 146, 182
Abortion 297
Acland Nursing Home (Oxford) 304, 330–1, 398, 413, 420, 427, 428–9
Acropolis, The 397
Acts of the Apostles 54
Adam 69, 129, 136, 189, 198, 199, 313
Adams, Fr Walter 235–6
Addison, Joseph 78
Addison’s Walk 78n, 114, 122, 156, 201
Adonis 116
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, 26
Aesop 322
Agrippa, H. Cornelius De Occulta Philosophia, 391
Alden, Lewis (‘Octie’) 11–12
Aldiss, Brian 123–4
Aldwinckle, Elia Estelle ‘Stella’ 271–7
Alexander, Samuel Space, Time and Deity, 99–100, 221
Alfred, King 63, 350
Algebra xxi, 30, 36
Allah 333
Allegory 127–8, 131, 132, 135, 137–9, 282, 323, 347, 358–9
Allen, Arthur Clement 12, 16
Allen, Edward 367
All Souls College (Oxford) 71, 86n
Amis, Kingsley 123–4
Anderson, Edward 17
Anglican (and Church of England) xvii, xviii, 24n, 82n, 132–3, 154n, 160, 166, 173, 220–1, 222, 227–8, 240, 253, 262–4, 283, 291–2, 293, 295, 337, 354n, 374–5, 376–7, 381–2, 383, 387–9, 417, 421–2, 423–6
Anglo-Saxon (Old English) 62n, 63, 64, 65, 66n, 79, 81, 87, 89, 92, 123, 147, 157, 164, 406
Anscombe, G.E.M. An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, 289n; Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind, 289n, 290–1
(with P. Geach) Three Philosophers, 289n; men. 289–90
Anselm, St 253
Anstey, F. In Brief Authority, 371
Only Toys!, 307
Vice Versa, 8, 364; men. 150
Anthroposophical Society, The 29n
Anthroposophy 29n, 59n, 85–6
Antichrist 324
Antioch 49
Apollo 394, 397
Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica, 28
Apostles, The 189–90
Applegarth School 420, 429
Apuleius The Golden Ass, 351; men. 211
Arbuthnot, John 162
Argonauts 322
Arius 254
Ariosto, Ludovico Orlando Furioso, 152, 186, 211, 212, 370, 371, 417
Aristotle 26, 85, 125, 142, 161, 410
Army Service Corps (later Royal Army Service Corps) 23, 87
Armour, Margaret (trans.) Richard Wagner 14, 20
Arnold, Edwin Lester Lepidus the Centurion, 209, 210
Arnold, Matthew Sohrab and Rustum, 12; men. 65n, 91, 142
Arras, Battle of 42–3
Artemis 73
Arthur, King 3, 26, 209
Arthurian Cycle 3, 48, 207, 322, 325
Artzbasheff, Boris 293
Arvieux, Laurent, Chevalier d’ 412, 414
Ashton Court (Bristol) 46, 47
Askins, Dr John Hawkins (‘the Doc’) 70
Askins, Mary Emmet Goldsborough 70n
Askins, Peony 70n
Askins, Rev. William James 233
A Square Flatland, 368
Assisi 306
Athanasius, St The Incarnation of the Word of God, 113–4, 247; men. 351
Athens 392, 393, 394
Atlantis 8, 86, 209, 210
Atonement, The 244, 253
Auden, W.H. 84, 178, 260, 293, 373–4
Augustine of Hippo, St City of God, 184
Confessions, 130; men. 142, 190, 200, 254
Austen, Jane 159, 350, 364
Avoca House Hotel (London) 338, 348–9
Ayres, Sergeant 42
Babbage, D.W. 369
Babylon 322
Bacchus 50, 116, 322
Badenoch, Sir John 413, 414–15, 429
Bailey, Cyril 50
Bailley, D.M. 285–6
Bailey, George ‘In the University’, 124
Baker, Eileen Brookes 59n
Baker, Leo Kingsley 59–60, 73
Baker Street Irregulars 371
Balaam 269
Balder 6, 14, 15, 116
Balliol College (Oxford) 24n, 50n, 74n, 75, 76n, 81n, 154n, 160n, 167n, 177
Baltimore 176
Barbour, Brian ‘Lewis and Cambridge,’ 345, 361
Barnes, Bishop Ernest William Rise of Christianity, 175n, 289; men. 175
Barfield, Lucy 306
Barfield, Maud 29n, 77
Barfield, Owen ‘Foreword’ to All My Road Before Me, 56–7
History in English Words, 29n
Owen Barfield on C.S.Lewis, 29n
Poetic Diction, 29n
Saving the Appearances, 29n
Worlds Apart, 29n
men. 29, 59–60, 62, 71, 77, 87, 91, 101, 105, 108, 110, 112, 120, 122, 126–7, 127, 130, 136, 158, 159, 161, 171, 233–4, 237, 261, 280, 284–5, 375, 417, 419
Barkway, Bishop James Lumsden 286
Barrie, J.M. Mary Rose, 356
Peter Pan, 10
Barth, Karl 267
Battle Abbey xx
Baudelaire, Charles 31
Baum, Vicki Grand Hotel, 220
Baxter, Mrs E.L. 297, 303
Baxter, Richard Church-history of the Government of Bishops, 246–7, 267
Saints’ Everlasting Rest, 246; Bayley, Peter 367
Baynes, Pauline 309, 312–13
BBC 105, 162n, 174, 240–2, 245–50, 252–9, 264–6, 297, 419
BBC Archive Centre 248
Beacon, The 72, 126
Becker, Wilhelm Charicles, 13
Beeching, H.C. 238
Beethoven, Ludwig van 219
Belfast xviii–xxii, 1, 38, 41, 47, 77, 86n, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 118, 177, 209, 331, 337
Beloit College 294–5
Belloc, Hilaire 48, 65
‘Belsen’ see Wynyard School Benecke, Paul Victor Mendelssohn 153, 155, 156
Benedictines, The 351
Bennett, Henry Stanley English Book and Readers 1475–1557, 369
men. 341, 343, 369
Bennett, Joan 369
Bennett, John Arthur Walter Humane Medievalist, 173n
men. 58n, 173, 291, 341n
Benson, Frank 16
Beowulf 28, 123
Berkeley, George 100
Bernardus Sylvestris De Mundi Universitate, 184–5
Bertram, Fr Jerome 281
Betjeman, (Sir) John A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 79n
Ghastly Good Taste, 79n
Old Lights for New Chancels, 79n
men. 79, 86–7, 151
Biaggini, E.G. The Reading and Writing of English, 277
Bible, The 120, 141, 148, 205m, 323, 325, 409, 422
Bide, Rev. Peter William 378–9, 381
Bird and Baby see Eagle and Child
Blackfriars (Oxford) 167
Blackfriars 131–2
Blackie’s Christmas Annual 321
Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone, 77
Blake, Leonard 235, 292
Bleiben, Rev. Thomas Eric 216, 227
Bles, Geoffrey 218n, 219–20, 236, 237, 282, 310, 311–12, 355
Blunden, Edmund Charles 146
Bob Jones University 295
Bodleian Library 50, 64n, 90, 92n, 135, 160n, 173, 174, 176n, 224–5
Boehme, Jacob Signatura Rerum, 104
Bois de Pacaut 43
Bolshevists see Communism
Bookman, The 14
Book of Common Prayer 234–5, 390, 417, 424
Books and Bookmen 358
Borron, Helie de Tristan, 28
Boswell, James Life of Samuel Johnson, 26, 51, men. 87
Bottomley, Gordon ‘Babel,’ 205
King Lear’s Wife, 152n
Poems in Thirty Years, 152n
men. 152, 183
Bournemouth 83
Bower, J. Dykes 389
Boxen characters 83
Boy’s Own Paper 9
Bradbury, Ray 211
Bradley, Andrew Cecil The Masque of Balliol, 86
Shakespearean Tragedy, 138
Bradley, Francis Herbert 100
Brady, Charles A. 187
Brasenose College (Oxford) 74n, 78, 139n
Brett-Smith, Herbert Francis 66
Brewer, Derek Stanley Chaucer and his World, 148n
Chaucer in his Time, 148n
A New Introduction to Chaucer, 148n
men. 148–51, 290
Bridges, Robert 48, 159
Brightman, Frank Edward The English Rite, 154n
men. 154
British Academy, The 157, 340, 344, 347, 431
British Cemetery (Pargny) 46n
British Council of Churches 379n
British Expeditionary Force 126–7, 175, 226–7
British Interplanetary Society 204, 210–11
British Library 407
British Museum 64, 363, 407–8
Bristol 38, 39, 40, 52 Broadsheet (Cambridge) 408–9
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 53
Browne, Sir Thomas 148
Bryson, John Norman 75–6, 90, 182
Buckle, H.T. History of Civilization in England, 25
Buddha 31
Buddha of Kamakura 112
‘Bultitude, Mr’ 115
Bultmann, Rudolf 423
Bunyan, John Grace Abounding, 93
Pilgrim’s Progress, 127–8, 323, 332
men. 131
Burke, Edmund 178
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley 78
Burnet, J.F. 369
Burns, Howard 409
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 186, 310
Burton, Robert Anatomy of Melancholy, 26
Butcher, S.H. (with Andrew Lang) Odyssey, 371
Butler, Samuel The Way of All Flesh, 59n
Brynhild 21
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 83
C.S.Lewis Foundation 96n
Caesar, Julius De Bello Gallico, 7
Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall The White Prophet, 9
Calais 175
Calvin, John 369
Camoëns, Luis de Lusiads, 152
Campbell, John Edward 36
Campbell, Roy Flaming Terrapin, 170
Flowering Rifle, 170
men. 84, 170–1, 174
Camberwell House Asylum 11n
Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union 365
Cambridge Review, The 365–6
Cambridge University Library 196
Campbell, J.E. 34
Campbell College (Belfast) 11–12, 61n, 209n
Capron, Ellen Barnes 8n
Capron, Eva 8n
Capron, John Wynyard 8n, 10
Capron, Norah 8n
Capron, Rev. Robert (‘Oldie’) 8–10, 11
Captain, The 9
Carew, Richard 61n
Carlingford Mountains (Co. Louth) 391
Carmel College 418
Carpenter, Bishop Harry 376–7, 379, 381
Carpenter, Humphrey The Inklings, 62n, 376n
J.R.R.Tolkien A Biography, 62n
men. 376–7
Carpenter, Urith Monica 376n
Carrickfergus (Co. Down) 86n, 87
Carritt, Edgar Frederick Philosophies of Beauty, 52n
Theory of Beauty, 52n
men. 52, 60, 71–2, 73, 99
Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 307, 323, 326
Through the Looking-Glass, 323
men. 3, 155
Casa Buoni Fanciulli (Verona) 294
Catholic Church (and Catholicism) xx, 62n, 119, 127n, 132–3, 166, 167, 173, 200, 222, 246, 247, 253, 262–5, 280–1, 289n, 290, 292–4, 295, 374, 376, 382, 383, 397, 424–6
Causality 74, 290
Cecil, Lord David Stricken Deer, 164n
men. 163–4, 176, 178, 339
Centenary Press (London) 218n, 219–20
Centenary Stone, C.S.Lewis (Magdalen College) 78n
Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote, 351, 371
Chancellor’s English Essay Prize 57, 71
Chambers, R.W. 136, 138
Chamisso, Adelbert von 30
Chase, Rt. Rev. G.A. A Companion to the Revised Psalter, 389, 402
men. 389, 418
Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales, 62n
Troilus and Criseyde, 62n, 63, 78, 104, 138
men. 28, 64, 147, 150, 350
Chavasse, Rev. Claude 132
Cherbourg School 12–14, 24, 40–1, 45
Cherbourg School Magazine 16
Chesterton, G.K. The Everlasting Man, 100, 252
Orthodoxy, 126
men. 65, 289
Chesterton Review, The 362
China 112, 120
Christ Church (Oxford) 29, 74n, 155, 403n, 431n
Christian Unity 294
Christina Dreams 59, 60, 85
Christ’s Hospital 391n
Church, Richard 160
Churchill, Winston 226, 266–7
Churchill Hospital 377, 392
Church Missionary Society 240n
Church of England see Anglican
Church of England Newspaper 286–7
Church of Ireland 38
Church Quarterly 236
Cinema 81
Clare College (Cambridge) 421n
Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood’s End, 211
men. 204, 210–11
Clarke, Dr Robert 44n
Classical Honour Moderations 24n, 50, 53, 55, 57, 62n, 63, 69, 71, 86n
Clergy Review 255
Clifton College 37
Coggan, Most Rev. F.D. 389
Coghill, Nevill ‘Approach to English,’ 65–6, 158, 385
Canterbury Tales (trans.) 62n
Troilus and Criseyde (trans.), 62n
men. 62, 65–6, 71, 73, 81, 83, 120, 136, 163, 165, 178, 182, 345, 411
Coldstream Guards 75n
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 7
Columbia University 334n
Commission to Revise the Psalter 364, 389–90, 392, 412, 418, 419
Communism 113, 334n, 356
Community of St Mary the Virgin 187n, 243
Como, James T. (ed) C.S.Lewis at the Breakfast Table, 180, 276n
Congreve, William 158
Constable, John ‘C.S.Lewis From Magdalen to Magdalene,’ 341–5
Contraception 279, 297
Cork (Ireland) xvii, xviii
Cork Steamship Company xvii
Corneille, Pierre 368
Corpus Christi College (Oxford) 66n, 81n
Costello, Dr G.P. 292–3
Courtly Love 91, 135, 347
Covent Garden 127
Coverdale, Miles 389
Coward, Noël Cavalcade, 134
Cowie, Miss 12
Cowper, William 79
Craig, Col. James 41
Craigie, Sir William Alexander Scandinavian Folk-Lore; Specimens of Icelandic Rímur, 66n
men. 66
Crete 392, 395
Crimean War xix
Crispin, Edmund Swan Song, 163, 193
men. 193
Criterion, The 82, 125
Croce, Benedetto 125
CSL The Bulletin of the New York C.S.Lewis Society, 261, 270
Cupid 321, 351–9
Curtis Brown, Spencer 405–6
Cyclops 322
Daily Mail 377, 378
Daily Mirror 256
Daily Telegraph, The 74n
Dalziel, George Mother Goose, 3
Dane Court School 335n, 338, 380, 390, 398
Dante, Alighieri Divine Comedy, 135n, 212, 282
Inferno, 83, 193n, 212
Purgatorio, 193n, 425
men. 124, 154n, 155, 167, 287,
Daphni 394, 397
David 274
Davidman, Helen Joy biography, 334; Anya, 334n
Letter to a Comrade, 334n; ‘Longest Way Round,’ 334n, 335
Smoke on the Mountain, 335, 337
Weeping Bay, 334n
and Childhood’s End, 211
Tolkien on, 217
Narnian title, 311
writes to L, 330
marriage and family, 334–5; meets L, 336
break with husband, 337
becomes Anglican, 337
to England with sons, 338
divorce; 348
meets Dorothy L. Sayers, 348
and Elliott family, 348–9; L’s inaugural lecture, 350–1; discusses Till We Have Faces with L, 353– 4
her character in, 356
Till We Have Faces dedicated to, 357
moves to Oxford, 360
cannot renew passport, 373
civil marriage, 373– 5
cancer, 375– 6
desires Christian marriage, 376– 8
married in hospital, 379
moves to Kilns, 380
recovers from cancer, 380
Tolkien not told of marriage, 381– 2
her friends, 383
meets Jean Wakeman, 383
L accepts her pains, 384– 5
honeymoon, 385– 6
and Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation, 387– 9
biography of Madame de Maintenon, 389
their happy marriage, 390
meets T.S.Eliot, 392
cancer returns, 392
trip to Greece, 392– 6
is happy, 397
meets Tolkien, 398
last outing, 398
her death, 399
epitaph, 400
men. 333, 403, 404, 405–11, 414
Davidman, Jeannette 348, 414
Davidman, Joseph 348, 414
Davies, R.T. 151
Davis, Norman (ed. with C.L.Wrenn) English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien, 420
men. 341
Dawson, John Hill Mackintosh 74
Day-Lewis, Cecil Georgics, 178
men. 178
Deane, A.C. 283
Death 27, 108, 284
Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions 133
Deirdre 21
De la Mare, Walter Behold the Dreamer, 81n
Peacock Pie, 81n
Return, 81n
Songs of Childhood, 81n
men. 81, 159, 218n
Dell, Rev. Edward T. 422–3
Delta 409–10
Democracy 261–4
Denecke, Margaret Paul Victor Mendelssohn Benecke, 153
Dent and Sons, J. M. 82, 131m 132
Derrick, Christopher 371, 416, 417
Deuteronomy 219
Devil see Satan Dial 82
Dias, R.W.M. 369
Dickens, Charles Bleak House, 410
men. 150, 159, 312
Dictionary of National Biography 58n
Disney, Walt 224
District Model National School (Belfast) xviii Dixon, Arthur Lee 78, 155
Doctrines 87, 90, 100
Dodds, Eric Robertson Missing Persons, 61n
men. 61
Dominicans (Order of Preachers) 167n
Donne, John The Second Anniversary, 64
The Soul’s Progress, 64
men. 148, 183
Dorsett, Lyle And God Came In, 334n, 335n, 336–7, 338, 348, 354
Dowding, C.S. 43
Dowell, Rev. Joseph 253
Down, County 2, 32, 41
Downing College (Cambridge) 141
Downside Review 132
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan ‘Great Keinplatz Experiment,’ 196
Sir Nigel, 3
men. 12, 175, 313
Dracula 415
Drayton, Michael 84
Drogheda 292–3, 304, 331, 404, 418
Dryden, John Marriage-à-la-Mode, 158
men. 148
Dublin xviii, 11n, 15, 38, 292
Dunbar, Nan 369
Dunbar of Hempriggs, Dame Maureen Daisy Helen 38, 47, 50, 55, 58, 77, 88, 95, 106, 123, 216, 235, 292, 308, 428
Dundalk 337
Dundas-Grant, James 167, 178, 179, 411, 417
Dundas-Grant, Katherine 167n
Dundela Flats (Belfast) xxiiin Dundela Villas xxii, xxiiin, 1–2, 6
Dunkirk 126–7, 175, 226–7
Dürer, Albrecht 53
Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson ‘Hugo’ 62, 101, 114–16, 120, 124, 163, 165, 166, 169, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 182, 188, 225, 367
Eagle and Child (‘Bird and Baby’ pub), The 163, 171–2, 173, 177, 178, 179, 310, 367, 386, 397
Eastgate Hotel (Oxford) 123, 220, 336
Eddison, Eric Robert Egils Saga, 260n
Fish Dinner in Memison, 260n
Mezentian Gate, 260n
Mistress of Mistresses, 260
Stybiorn the Strong, 260n
Worm Ouroboros, 260, 371
men. 260–1
Eden 6
Edwards, John Robert 51
Edwards, Rev. Maurice 242–3
Elder Edda 22
Elgin Marbles 73
Eliot, George 159
Eliot, Thomas Stearns ‘Dante’, 124
Four Quartets, 82n
Poems, 82n
Prufrock and Other Observations, 82n
The Waste Land, 82n, 83
men. 82–4, 124–5, 132, 160, 175, 260, 284, 293, 348, 364, 389–90, 392, 405–6
Eliot, Valerie 390, 392, 405–6
Ellis, Henry Havelock 388
Elliott, Rev. Leslie Llewelyn 348–9
Elliott, Mrs Leslie Llewelyn 348–9
Elliott, Paul 348–9
Elliott, Msgr. Peter J. ‘A Child’s Memories of C.S.Lewis,’ 349
men. 348–9
Elton, Godfrey, Baron 266
Emmanuel College (Cambridge) 147n, 341, 369n
Empson, William 266
Encyclopedia Boxoniana 89
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics 276
Endicott, Lizzie 1–2, 3
Endsleigh Palace Hospital (London) 44–7,
English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien see Norman Davis
English Language and Literature, School of 52, 58–9, 62–6, 69, 70, 75–6, 79n, 80–2, 99, 145–53, 157, 224, 339
Epic 182
Epimenides of Crete 209
Episcopalian, The 422–3
Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation 386–9
Equality 261–2
Erasmus, Desiderius 90
Erechtheum 393
Essays and Studies 125, 138–9
Eton College 37, 83n, 167n, 341n
Euripides Bacchae, 50
Helen, 357
Hippolytus, 99
men. 369, 371
Eurydice 122
Evans, Charles Sheldon 48
Eve 198, 199, 231, 313
Every, George 142
Ewart, Charles Gordon 11n
Ewart, Gundreda see Gundreda Forrest
Ewart, Hope see Hope Harding
Ewart, Kelso ‘Kelsie’ 11n
Ewart, Lily 11n
Ewart, Mary, Lady 11, 11n, 13n
Ewart, Robert Heard 11n
Ewart, Sir William Quartus 11, 13n
Exeter College (Oxford) 59, 62n, 63, 65, 66, 70, 132, 136, 163, 417n
Fablel dou Dieu d’Amours 90
Fafnir 16
Fairy Tales 3, 194, 245, 286, 301–28, 428
Fall of Man, The 191, 221, 222, 261–2
Farnell, L. R. 59
Farrar, Fredrick William Darkness and Dawn, 9
Farrer, Rev. Dr. Austin ‘The Christian Apologist,’ 274
Finite and Infinite, 24n; ‘In His Image,’ 322
Revelation of St John the Divine, 24n
men. 24, 253, 354n, 374, 375, 376, 383, 399, 405, 406, 412, 428, 429
Farrer, Katharine At Odds with Morning; Cretan Counterfeit; Gownsman’s Gallows; The Missing Link, 354n
men. 24n, 354, 375, 381, 383, 386, 399, 405, 406, 412, 428, 429
Felix (the cat) 81
Fenn, Rev. Eric 242, 248, 252, 253, 255, 256, 264–6, 267, 286, 296, 297
Field, Walter Ogilvie ‘Wof’ 87
Fielding, Henry 159
Firor, Dr Warfield M. 176, 331–2
Fisher, Archbishop Geoffrey 389
Flanders, Michael 403n
Flannery OP, Austin (ed) Vatican Council The Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Documents, 133
Foch, Field Marshal Ferdinand 42
Forrest, Gundreda Ewart 11n, 13n
Forrest, John 11n
Fouqué, Friedrich 30
Fowler, Alastair (ed) Spenser’s Images of Life, 435
Fox, Rev. Adam ‘At the Breakfast Table,’ 155–6
Old King Cole,’ 155n
men. 155, 163
France, Anatole 161
Fraser, George Gordon 21
Frazer, G.S. 348
Frazer, Sir James George Golden Bough, 31, 100
Free Will 221, 324
Freud, Sigmund 129, 275, 388
Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay see Robert Greene
Galsworthy, John 47
Ganymede 163
Gardner, Dame Helen ‘Clive Staples Lewis,’ 157, 340, 344, 347
men. 342–4
Garrod, H. W. Wordsworth, 71
Gaskell, Jane 358
Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir 28, 88, 149
Gay, John 162
Geach, Peter 289n
Gebbert, Vera 403
General Strike, The 72
Genesis 201, 231
Genius 184–5
Geoffrey of Monmouth History of the Kings of Britain, 209
George V, King 240n
Gibb, Sir Alexander 355n
Gibb, Jocelyn (ed) Light on C.S.Lewis, 68
men. 355, 373, 396, 407–8, 423
Gibbon, Edward Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 422
Gibson, Strictland 64
Gilbert, Martin First World War, 39n, 226, 238
Gilmore, Rev. Charles James Frederick 242–3, 251–2
Giovanni Calabria, St 293–4, 304, 406
Girton College (Cambridge) 369
Glasgow University 50n
Glenmachan 11
God the Father 47, 83, 100, 101, 102–16, 129–30, 133, 137, 141, 142, 165, 166, 188–9, 192–4, 200, 201, 203, 216, 218–19, 221–24, 227–33, 244, 245, 250, 262–8, 283, 287, 297, 315, 324, 358–9, 384, 421–6
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 30
Gorgons 213
Gortyna (Crete) 396
Gospels, The 100, 101, 116, 243, 245
Gordon, George Stuart 52, 64–5, 66, 76, 87, 91
Graham, Billy Just As I Am, 365
men. 221
Grahame, Kenneth Dream Days, 93
Wind in the Willows, 10, 301
men. 322
Graves, Robert 48
Gray, Simon 409
Great Bookham 17, 23–8, 47, 63, 369
‘Greats’ see Literae Humaniores
Greece 1, 147, 390, 392, 393–6, 397, 432
‘Green, Henry’ (Henry Vincent Yorke) Blindness, 83n
Caught, 83n
Pack My Bag, 83n
Party Going, 83n
men. 83
Green, June Lancelyn 380, 383, 392–6, 406–7
Green, Roger Lancelyn C.S.Lewis, 326
Into Other Worlds, 186
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, 371
Luck of Troy, 313
Mystery at Mycenae, 356
Theft of the Golden Cat, 310
Wood that Time Forgot, 60, 305– 6
men. 4, 60, 80, 147, 150, 152, 158, 173–4, 178, 183, 186, 193, 201–2, 210, 211, 213, 219, 305–11, 313–15, 327, 332–3, 339, 346, 356–7, 371, 372, 374–5, 378, 380, 383, 386, 390, 392–6, 397, 405, 406–7, 413–14, 417, 419, 429, 432
Greene, Graham 293, 348
Greene, Robert Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, 206
Greeves, Arthur 11n, 22–3, 25, 26–7, 30–1, 36–8, 41, 44–5, 55–6, 62, 70, 79, 82, 90, 91, 92–3, 101–2, 103, 104–10, 108–9, 110–14, 115–6, 118–19, 119–20, 127, 130–1, 133–4, 136, 158, 163, 198, 242, 250, 260, 293, 296, 331–2, 338, 346, 373–4, 384, 385–6, 391, 404, 412–13, 425
Greeves, Joseph 23, 119
Gresham David Lindsay 308, 334, 335, 337, 338, 373, 378, 383, 398, 404, 406–7, 414, 418, 419, 429, 430
Gresham, Douglas Howard Lenten Lands, 335n, 337, 398–9, 404
men. 308, 334, 335, 337, 338, 373, 378, 380, 383, 393, 398, 404, 406–7, 414, 420, 421, 425, 429, 430
Gresham, Meredith 335n
Gresham, William Lindsay Limbo Tower, 334n
Nightmare Alley, 334
men. 334–5, 336–7, 338, 348, 353–4, 374, 376, 381, 404, 419–20
Griffiths, Dom Bede Golden String, 127n
Marriage of East and West, 127n
men. 127, 166, 246, 253, 296, 376, 381, 384
Grundy, G.B. (ed) Murray’s Small Classical Atlas, 306
Guardian, The (church newspaper) 236–7, 259, 282, 284, 285, 288
Guerber, H.M.A. Myths of the Norsemen, 22
Haggard, H. Rider Ghost Kings, 9
Pearl Maiden, 9
When the World Shook, 195, 210, 321; (with Andrew Lang) World’s Desire, 357
men. 134, 150, 322, 370, 371
Haig, Sir Douglas 42
Haileybury College 132n
Haldane, J.B.S. Possible Worlds, 186, 204
men. 276
Halder, General Franz 226
Hall, Bishop R.O. 262, 264
Hamilton, Augustus ‘Gussie’ (L’s uncle, 1866–1945) xix Hamilton, Elizabeth 3
Hamilton, Hugh (of Evandale) xix
Hamilton, The Rt. Rev. Hugh I (father of Rev. Thomas Robert Hamilton, 1729–1805) xix
Hamilton, Hugh II (son of Hugh Hamilton I, 1790–1865) xix
Hamilton, Hugh (son of Thomas Robert Hamilton, 1864–1900) xix
Hamilton, Isabella xix
Hamilton, Sir James (d. 1540) xix
Hamilton, Lilian see Lilian Suffern
Hamilton, Mary Warren (L’s grandmother, 1826–1916) xix, xx–xxi
Hamilton. Rev. Thomas Robert (L’s grandfather, 1826–1905) xix–xxii, 119
Hamm, Victor 194
Hardie, Anthony 154n
Hardie, Christian 154n, 354, 412
Hardie, Colin 154, 167, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 354, 411, 432
Hardie, Nicholas 154n
Hardie, William Francis Ross 81, 83
Harding, George 11n, 15, 16
Harding, Hope Ewart 10, 11n, 15, 16
Hardman, Sir Donald 17, 20
Hardy, Thomas 159, 161
Harper, Annie 6, 7
Harris, Percy Gerald Kelsal (‘Pogo’) 13, 40–1
Harrison, G.B. (ed) Major British Writers, 336n
Hartmann, Cyril Hughes The Cavalier Spirit, 51n
men. 51, 54–5, 57
Harvard University 82n
Harwood, Alfred Cecil 29, 60, 71, 73, 136, 158–9, 207, 385, 417
Harwood, Daphne 29n, 207, 385
Harwood, Laurence 385, 420
Hastings, Adrian History of English Christianity, 421, 422
Hávamál, The 116n
Havard, Dr Robert Emlyn ‘Humphrey’ ‘Philia Jack at Ease,’ 166
men. 166, 172, 174, 176, 178, 179, 218, 227, 272, 291, 330–1, 374, 381, 411, 417, 427
Hazebrouck, Battle of 42–3
Hazlitt, William 158
Head, Alfred 417n
Head, Beatrice 417n
Head, Rev. Canon Ronald Edwin Royal Supremacy, 417
men. 417, 424, 429
Heard, Robert 14n
Heaven 69, 104, 108, 205, 222, 228, 245, 267, 282, 306, 325, 345
Hebrew University (Jerusalem) 414
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 100, 427
Heinemann, William 47
Helen of Troy 21, 54, 313, 356–7
Hell 108, 115, 216, 221–22, 227–33, 267, 280–3
Henley, William Ernest 159
Henry, Vera 304, 337
Heraclitus 161
Herakleon 395
Herbert, A.P. 266
Herodotus Histories, 26
Herrick, Robert 84
Hertford College (Oxford) 17n, 36, 50n, 340n
Heywood, H.L.C. 266–7
Hichens, Robert A Spirit in Prison, 48
Highgate School (London) 29n
Hill, J.R. 43
Hillegas, Mark R. The Future as Nightmare, 214
‘Hillsboro’ 61, 95
Hitler, Adolf 216, 219, 226, 227
Holberg, Ludwig Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum, 322
Hollywood 334n
Holy Spirit, The 119, 266
Holy Trinity Church (Rome) xix
Holy Trinity Church (Headington Quarry) 216, 227–8, 233–4, 413, 417n
Home Guard, The 235
Homer Iliad, 25, 28, 372n, 432
Odyssey, 25, 28, 141, 322, 372n
men. 83, 322, 347, 369
Hong Kong 146n, 262
Hook, Mrs 199
Hooker, Richard 114
Hooper, Walter C.S.Lewis A Companion & Guide, 8n, 24n, 29n, 59n, 62n, 82n, 151n, 154n, 155n, 164n, 167n, 209n, 286–7, 337, 363n, 391 ‘Oxford’s Bonny Fighter,’ 276n
Through Joy and Beyond, 402
men. 103, 105, 106, 122, 134, 171, 178, 179, 217, 218, 224, 232, 235, 236, 245, 258, 284, 286, 290, 295, 297–8, 306, 316, 326, 340, 345, 370, 376, 385, 388, 390, 392, 397, 426–9
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 183
Horace 26
Horizon 160
Housman, A.E. Last Poems, 63
men. 91
Humanism 22, 83, 129, 212, 278, 350
Hunter College 334n
Hydra, The 105
Ibsen, Henrik Peer Gynt, 25
men. 27
Icelandic Sagas 2, 88–9
Icelandic Society see Kolbítar Idealism 85, 100, 101, 129
Ideologies 272, 278–9
Illustrated London Times, The 420
Imagination 65, 85–6, 267, 285, 305, 312
Imperial College (London) 242n
Incarnation, The 192, 267, 289
India xix, 4, 127n, 219n
Inge, William Personal Religion and the Life of Devotion, 113
Inklings, The 55, 62n, 145–79, 195, 205, 220, 225, 282, 411, 432–3
Inner Ring, The 20, 161, 207–8
In Review 362
Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle, 209
Jacob xxi
James, St 236
James, Henry 158, 159
James, Rev. Canon Sydney Rhodes Seventy Years, 16n
men. 16, 18
James I, King xix Jason 28, 30
Jenkin, Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Cornish Miner, 61n
Cornish Seafarers, 61n
Story of Cornwall, 61n
men. 61, 62, 63, 105
Jenkins, Anne 323–4
Jensen, Hal 347–8
Jerome, St 142
Jerusalem 9, 335n
Jesuits see Order of Jesus Jesus Christ 9, 15, 31, 100, 103, 111, 113, 115–16, 129, 131, 133, 141, 165, 192, 193, 199, 201, 222, 227, 243, 245, 246, 253, 254, 257, 258, 262, 263–7, 276–7, 288, 294, 315, 323–4, 356, 358–9, 379, 397
Jesus College (Cambridge) 140, 421n
Joad, C.E.M. 238, 237, 274
Job 166
John, St Gospel, 87, 88, 89, 102, 103, 133, 141
Revelation, 14n, 190–1
John Paul II, Pope men. 293n, 297–8
Johns Hopkins University 176
Johnson, Laurence Bertrand 41
Johnson, Dr Samuel 83, 148, 158, 364
Jones, Dr Bob, Jr 295
Joseph, St 288
‘Joy’ (as intense longing) 6, 22, 61, 63, 72, 100, 111–12, 118, 125–7, 129, 330
Joyce, James Ulysses, 368
men. 83, 159
Jubinal, Achille 98
Judaism 414, 418
Judea 9
Jupiter 146, 185
Juvenal 83
Kamiros 395
Kant, Immanuel Critique of Pure Reason, 100n
Keats, John 3, 26, 64
Keble College (Oxford) 24n, 37–9, 166n, 376n, 406
Keir, Sir David Lindsay 74–5, 177
Kepler, Johann 186
Ker, Neil Ripley 92–3
Ker, W.P. Epic and Romance, 138
Ketley, Martin see Alec King Kilby, Clyde S. 234, 358–9
Kilmer, Hugh 296, 300
Kilns, The 78, 94–5, 99, 105, 112, 120, 121–2, 123, 133, 145, 177, 216–17, 224, 227, 235, 255, 291, 292, 296, 303, 316, 331, 333, 336, 337, 349, 360, 366, 373, 376, 379, 380, 386, 390, 397, 404, 405, 411, 413, 417, 419, 420, 426–7, 429–32
King, Alec (with Martin Ketley) The Control of Language 277–8
King Kong 134, 135
King’s Arms (Oxford) 173
King’s College (Cambridge) 37, 409
King’s College (London) 340n
Kingsmill, Hugh Matthew Arnold, 91
Kinter, William L. 211–12
Kipling, Rudyard ‘The Land,’ xx; Brushwood Boy, 308; ‘On the Gate,’ 310
Puck of Pook’s Hill, xx; Stalky & Co., 162, 321
men. 106, 158, 347, 368, 369
Kircher, Athanasius Iter Celestre, 186
Mundus Subterraneus, 322
Kirkpatrick, William T. (‘The Great Knock’) xviii, 17, 22, 23–4, 28, 30, 51, 85n, 153, 159, 282, 306, 326
Knight, Gerald H. 389
Knossos 372, 395–6
Knowles, David 341
Kolbítar (Icelandic Society) 82, 88–9, 93, 161
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von 388
Laclos, Choderlos de Liasons Dangereuses, 432
Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford) 63n, 80, 274, 379n
Ladborough, Richard William ‘In Cambridge’, 363–5, 369–70, 390, 412, 432
men. 363, 415
Lamb, Charles Essays of Elia, 26
Lamb and Flag, The (Oxford) 178, 417, 427, 432–3
Lambeth Palace 389, 390, 412
Lancing College 155n
Lang, Andrew Chronicles of Pantouflia, 311
History of English Literature, 26, 30–1
Myth, Ritual and Religion, 31; (with S.H.Butcher) Odyssey, 371; (with Rider Haggard) World’s Desire, 357
men., 159, 305, 322, 328, 372
Lapley Grange School 398
Last Judgement, The 324
Launcelot, Sir 371
Lawlor, John James C.S.Lewis Memories and Reflections, 139, 151, 152; (ed) Patterns of Love and Courtesy, 139n
Piers Plowman, 139n
Tragic Sense in Shakespeare, 139n
men. 139, 151
Lawrence, Brother Practice of the Presence of God, 113
Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 421
Sons and Lovers, 368
men. 158, 159, 260
Lawson, Frederick Henry 74–5, 101–2
Laxdale Saga 88–9
Lazarus 429
Lean, Edward Tangye Of Unsound Mind, 162n
Storm in Oxford, 162n
Voices in the Darkness, 162n
men. 162, 163
Leavis, F.R. 141, 148, 366, 371, 408–10
Legal Fiction 261, 262–4
Leslie, Dr Richard Whytock 12
Lewis, Albert James (father of CSL, 1863–1929) birth, xviii at Lurgan College, xviii; law clerk, xviii–xix
speaking ability, xviii; law practice, xix
and Hamilton family, xxi; marriage, xxii; politics, 5
description, 6
Flora’s death, 7
his emotions, 7– 8
and Wynyard School, 10
and vaudeville, 10
sends Jack to Campbell College, 11
to Cherbourg School, 12, 16
Mr Kirkpatrick’s solicitor, 17
to send Jack to Mr Kirkpatrick, 19, his character, 21– 2
told of Jack’s abilities, 28
Jack’s confirmation, 31
Jack joins army, 37
Jack urges him to visit, 40
tries to get him transferred, 41
Jack begs for visit, 46
fails to visit, 46
commiserates with Mrs Moore, 46– 7
Jack comes home, 49
and son’s involvement with Mrs Moore, 52
quarrel with Jack, 53
lied to, 55
finances Jack’s reading of English school, 58– 9
Jack visits, 61– 2
Christmas visit from Jack, 64
offers to finance him another three years, 70– 1
Jack elected Fellow of Magdalen, 76
his generosity towards, 76– 7
last Christmas with sons, 85
health causes anxiety, 88
visit from Jack, 89
lumbago and sciatica, 90
seriously ill, 91
death, 92
Jack’s shame over, 101– 2
collection of family papers, 118
on Joseph Greeves, 119
men. 30, 38–9, 50–2, 54, 56, 58, 66, 75, 103, 134, 145, 150, 174
Lewis, Clive Staples (1898–1963) xvii–xxii; birth, xxii, 1
brother, 1
holiday with mother, 1; ‘Archpiggiebotham’ and ‘Smallpiggiebotham,’ 2
move to Little Lea, 2
loves Co. Down, 2
renamed ‘Jack’, 3
Boxen stories, 4– 5
experiences ‘Joy’, 6
mother’s death, 7– 8
Wynyard School, 8– 10
Campbell College, 11
Cherbourg School, 12
becomes unbeliever, 12
Pogo’s influence, 13
Wagner and return of Joy, 14– 15
and gramophone, 14
to Malvern College, 16– 21
difficulty with father, 21– 22
writes ‘Loki Bound’, 22
meets Arthur Greeves, 22– 3
goes to Mr Kirkpatrick, 23–9, 30– 1
discovers Phantastes, 27
Mr Kirkpatrick on, 28
to serve in war, 29
scholarship to University College, 29
his atheism, 31
matriculates at Oxford, 36
joins Officers’ Training Corps, 36
Paddy Moore and family, 37– 8
promise to Paddy, 39
infatuation for Mrs Moore, 40
in Somerset Light Infantry, 40
arrives in France, 40
hospital, 41
loves Mrs Moore, 41
Battle of Hazebrouck, 42– 3
wounded, 43– 4
his wounds, 44
hospital in London, 44– 5
relationship with Mrs Moore, 45
Spirits in Bondage published, 48
home for Christmas, 49
return to University College, 49
begins Classical Honour Moderations, 50
Martlets, 50– 1
father on affair with Mrs Moore, 52
quarrels with father, 53
dislike of coteries, 54
joint-life with Moores, 55– 7
First in Classical Moderations, 57
First in Literae Humaniores, 57
wins Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, 57
meets W.B.Yeats, 57– 8
advised to read English, 58– 9
writing Dymer, 59– 60
on A.K. Hamilton Jenkin, 61
friendship of Owen Barfield and A.C.Harwood, 61
whiff of ‘Joy’, 61; ‘family’ moves to ‘Hillsboro’, 61
begins English School, 62– 3
First in English, 66; ‘Domestic drudgery,’ 69
depression, 70
advertises for pupils, 71
applies for Fellowship, 71
disappointments, 72
temporary post at University College, 73
first lecture, 73– 4
elected Fellow of Magdalen College, 76
on exchanging Philosophy for English, 76
thanks father for generosity, 76– 7
holiday on Exmoor, 77
college rooms, 77– 8
first lecture in English School, 80
women pupils, 80–1l meets J.R.R. Tolkien, 81– 2
dislikes poetry of T.S.Eliot, 83– 4
favourite contemporary poets, 84
Dymer published, 84– 5
last Christmas at home, 85; spiritual worries, 85– 6
tutors John Betjeman, 86– 7
visits father, 88
attempts modern novel, 89
life during term–time, 89
Christmas 1929 with father, 90
father ill, 91
father’s death, 92
interest in Christianity, 93
portrait of Arthur Greeves, 93
destroys Boxen toys, 93
buys Kilns, 94– 5
shame over father, 101
conversion to Theism, 102– 3
attending church, 103
self–examination, 104– 5
Pride his besetting sin, 105
William Morris in new light, 106– 7
on chastity, 107
a Christian perspective, 108
poetic ambition given up, 108– 9
religious poems, 109– 10
early version of Surprised by Joy, 111
Warnie returns to Faith, 112
his ‘expository demon’, 112
conversion to Christianity, 115
Tolkien and Dyson influenced conversion, 115– 16
rereads letters to Greeves, 118– 19
on Puritanism, 119– 20
and Fred Paxford, 121–2; ‘Beer and Beowulf’ evenings, 123
and bawdy stories, 123– 4
and ‘Personal Heresy’, 124– 5
tries to tell story of ‘Joy’, 125– 7
writes Pilgrim’s Regress, 127– 33
visits Scotland, 134
walking tour with Warnie, 135
reads Place of the Lion, 136–7
Allegory of Love published, 138– 9
on conflict between Objective and Subjective, 140– 1
as lecturer, 145– 7
as tutor, 148– 52
his manner, 152– 3
with colleagues, 154– 6
and English syllabus, 157
and 19th century literature, 159– 60
and Ruth Pitter, 160n; ‘Portico,’ 161– 1
the Inklings, 161– 79
first ‘biography,’ 169– 70
meets Roy Campbell, 170– 1
death of Charles Williams, 171– 2
T.S.Eliot’s poems, 175
end of Thursday Inkling meetings, 177
as literary critic, 182– 3
inspiration behind science fiction, 184– 91
development of Christian doctrine, 189– 91
his ‘Supposal,’ 190
writes Perelandra, 199– 203
on interplanetary travel, 203– 4
writes That Hideous Strength, 204– 11
influence of Williams on That Hideous Strength, 205
and British Interplanetary Society, 210– 11
his space trilogy, 211– 12
his short stories, 212– 13
Warnie recalled to active duty, 216– 17
influence of Charles Williams, 218
preaches at St Mary the Virgin, 218–19; ‘discovered’ by Ashley Sampson, 220
a ‘dogmatic Christian,’ 221
and Problem of Pain, 221– 24
Williams’s Milton lectures, 224– 6
idea for Screwtape Letters, 227– 8
on writing Screwtape, 229– 33
Mrs Moore on his Faith, 233– 4
first Confession, 235–6
Screwtape royalties given away, 236
success of Screwtape Letters, 237
his ‘Agape Fund,’ 237
invited to talk over BBC, 240– 1
talks to RAF, 242– 4
preaches ‘Weight of Glory,’ 244– 6
defines ‘Mere Christianity,’ 246– 7
BBC talks on ‘Right and Wrong,’ 247– 8
more talks to RAF, 250– 2
BBC talks on ‘What Christians Believe,’ 252– 5
Christ ‘either God or a good man,’ 254
BBC talks on ‘Christian Behaviour,’ 255– 9
and ‘Repellent Doctrines,’ 256
first talk on ‘Miracles,’ 259
and E.R.Eddison, 260– 1
misogynist on ‘theoretical level,’ 261
on democracy, 261– 2
on equality, 261– 2
ordination of women and legal fiction, 262– 5
fourth series of BBC talks, 264– 8
and ‘originality,’ 268
and Socratic Club, 271–7
Abolition of Man, 276–80
The Great Divorce, 281– 3
meets T.S.Eliot, 284
made DD by St Andrews, 285– 6
interviewed by Ashley Sampson, 286– 7
writes Miracles, 287– 9
debate with G.E.M. Anscombe, 289– 90
problems with Mrs Moore, 291– 2
problems with Warnie, 292– 3
on cover of Time, 293
corresponds with Don Calabria, 293– 4
accepted by Protestants and Catholics, 295
his pastoral letters, 296
generosity to beggars, 296
his encouragement, 297
Pope John Paul II on, 297– 8
on children’s stories, 301– 3
early attempts at fairy tale, 303
writes Lion, Witch and Wardrobe, 304– 8
writes Prince Caspian, 309
Pauline Baynes as illustrator, 309
writes Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’, 310
writes Silver Chair, 310– 11
writes Horse and His Boy, 311– 12
writes Magician’s Nephew, 313– 14
and Last Battle, 314
reasons for writing Chronicles, 314– 15
order of Narnian books, 320
literary inspiration, 320– 2
creates new mythology, 322– 3
Free Will in Narnia, 324
and Plato’s Shadowlands, 325
Narnias read on two levels, 325
wrote to please himself, 325– 6
defines Civilisation, 326
critical reception of Narnian stories, 326– 8
amongst great writers for children, 328
fan letter from Joy Davidman, 330; very ill, 330– 1
touch of Old Age, 331– 2
Mrs Moore to nursing home, 332
his health improves, 332
holiday with Green, 332– 3
stalked by Kitty Martin, 333
meets Joy Davidman, 336
invites her to Kilns, 336
holiday in Ireland, 337– 8
visit from Joy, 338
and English syllabus, 339
urged to apply for Chair in Cambridge, 340– 1
turns down Chair, 341– 2
accepts Cambridge Chair, 343– 5
Oxford offers Chair, 345
is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, 345
Fellow of Magdalene College, 345
publishes O Hell! volume, 346
Cambridge Inaugural lecture, 350– 1
residence in Magdalene, 351
writes Till We Have Faces, 351– 9
begins After Ten Years, 356– 7
reception of Till We Have Faces, 358
replies to interpretations, 358– 9
likes Magdalene, 363– 5
meets Billy Graham, 365
F.R.Leavis as colleague, 366
happy years at Magdalene, 368– 70
Cambridge walks, 370
modern translations of Classics, 371– 3
marries Joy in registry office, 373– 5
she has cancer, 375– 6
she wants Christian marriage, 376– 7
more trouble with Kitty Martin, 377– 8
his Christian marriage, 379
Joy moves to Kilns and cancer is arrested, 380
his pity led to Eros, 380– 1
does not tell Tolkien about marriage, 381
their disagreement on marriage, 382
worries about Warnie, 383– 4
Joy’s pains in his body, 384– 5
honeymoon in Ireland, 485– 6
his happiness, 386
records talks on Four Loves, 387– 9
on Commission to Revise Psalter, 389– 90
likes T.S.Eliot, 390
as Family Man, 390
plans trip to Greece, 390
supervises Francis Warner, 391
Joy’s cancer returns, 392
in Greece, 393– 7
Joy’s last days, 398
her death, 399
his epitaph for her, 400
meets Donald Swann, 403
meets Bill Gresham, 404
writes A Grief Observed, 405– 6
his ‘Five Sonnets’; kindness of friends, 406– 7
and ‘Whole Screwtape’, 407– 8
tussle with Leavisites, 408– 10
publishes Studies in Words, 411
prostate and kidney problems, 413
education of stepsons, 414
Experiment in Criticism published, 415– 17
too ill to teach, 417– 18
returns to Cambridge, 418
sits for portrait, 421
and Honest to God, 421– 3
his Letters to Malcolm, 423– 6
has heart attack, 428
receives Extreme Unction, 428
hires Walter Hooper, 428– 9
resigns Cambridge Chair, 429
puts affairs in order, 430
cared for by Warnie, 431
a farewell to friends, 432– 3
his death, 433
BOOKS A Grief Observed, 362, 405–11, 408
The Abolition of Man, 76, 101, 204, 205, 276–80
The Allegory of Love, 69, 78, 90–1, 124, 125, 128, 135, 137–9, 145, 148, 164, 182, 184, 325, 347
All My Road Before Me, 56, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69–70, 73, 74–5, 80, 81–2, 85–7, 101, 155n, 206, 321, 352
Arthurian Torso, 284
Beyond Personality, 265–8
Boxen, 4–5, 10, 22, 88, 93, 169–70, 255
Broadcast Talks, 248–50, 252–5, 266, 276, 303
C.S.Lewis Essay Collection, 221
Christian Behaviour, 255–9, 267, 382
Christian Reflections, 48n, 141
Christian Reunion, 238
Chronicles of Narnia, 4, 190, 197, 223–4, 245, 301–28, 330, 332, 346, 348, 349, 391, 433
Collected Poems, 26, 31–2, 72, 78n, 110–11, 291, 399–400
The Dark Tower and Other Stories, 195–7, 303, 356–7
The Discarded Image, 146, 182, 419, 430
Dymer, 2, 30, 48, 57–8, 59–60, 69–70, 72, 82, 84–5, 107, 108, 116, 124, 357
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 135, 173, 304, 332, 336, 346–8
(ed) Essays Presented to Charles Williams, 136, 165, 171–2, 295, 405
Experiment in Criticism, 3, 51, 189, 408, 415–17
Family Letters, 10, 11n, 12, 17–19, 25, 27, 29, 30–1, 36–7; 40, 41, 44–5, 47–8, 49, 50–1, 53–4, 55–6, 58–9, 66, 70, 74, 75, 76–7, 79–80, 81, 82, 88–9, 90–4, 102, 103, 104–10, 112–16, 120, 123, 154, 158, 188, 213, 405
Fern–seed and Elephants, 219
First and Second Things, 98n
The Four Loves, 295n, 353, 359, 373, 387–9
(ed) George MacDonald An Anthology, 27
God in the Dock Essays on Theology and Ethics (Fount), 98n, 269
The Great Divorce, 168, 212, 280–4, 289, 349, 380, 424
The Horse and His Boy, 310, 311–12, 315, 320, 324
The Last Battle, 78, 313, 314, 320, 321, 324, 326, 336, 337, 433
Letters C.S.Lewis–Don Giovanni Calabria, 294, 304
Letters of C.S.Lewis, 5, 19, 165–6, 172, 187–8, 198, 199, 220, 224–5, 227–8, 234, 236, 267, 296, 332, 345, 358–9, 367, 378, 381, 384, 385, 403, 423, 429–30
Letters to an American Lady, 235, 239, 296, 297, 414–15, 418, 428
Letters to Children, 324
Letters to Malcolm, 336, 421, 423–6, 430
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, xx; 224, 303–8, 309n, 310, 313, 315, 320, 323, 324, 327, 330
Magician’s Nephew, 2, 20n, 308–9, 313–14, 316, 320, 324, 325
Mere Christianity, 105, 159n, 247–50, 252–59, 265–8, 276, 278, 289, 296
Miracles, 150, 188–9, 259, 285, 287–9, 373
The Nameless Isle, 109, 110
Narrative Poems, 85, 109
Of This and Other Worlds, 13, 33, 187, 301
Out of the Silent Planet, 54, 164, 184, 185, 186, 187n, 188, 190, 191–5, 197, 198, 199, 203, 207, 212, 302
Perelandra, 43, 77, 169, 184, 185, 190, 194, 195, 198–203, 205, 210, 212, 231, 302, 322, 357, 403–4, 427; (with E.M.W.Tillyard) The Personal Heresy, 138–9, 140, 411
The Pilgrim’s Regress, 83, 110, 127–33, 188, 212, 220, 281, 323
Poems, 95
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’, 152, 182–3, 225–6, 230, 284, 347
Prince Caspian, 308, 310, 313, 315, 316, 320, 324, 331, 332
The Problem of Pain, 164, 166, 167, 198, 205, 220, 221–24, 240, 254, 324, 423
The Queen of Drum, 85, 109
Reflections on the Psalms, 386, 389, 412
Rehabilitations, 51, 141, 156–7
The Screwtape Letters, 28, 167, 194, 206, 212, 227–33, 240, 251, 254, 259, 280, 282, 283, 294, 349, 364, 377, 378, 407, 423
The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast, 229, 233, 407–8
Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces, 18, 34, 189, 216
Selected Literary Essays, 159, 314, 329
The Silver Chair, 122, 154n, 310–11, 312, 315, 320, 322, 324, 326
Spenser’s Images of Life, 412, 435
Spirits in Bondage, 32–3, 48, 54, 57, 69, 101, 108, 139
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 336n
Studies in Words, 365, 411
Surprised by Joy, xx, 2–3, 6, 7–8, 10–11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19–20, 21, 22, 24, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45, 61, 65, 70, 86, 99, 100, 102–3, 111, 115, 153–4, 304, 330
That Hideous Strength, 17, 58, 77, 123, 154, 169, 185, 187, 197, 204–11, 212, 261, 280, 302, 368
They Stand Together, 131, 133, 136, 163, 198, 242, 250, 255, 260, 293, 296, 332, 346, 374, 384, 405, 413
Till We Have Faces, 201, 234, 351–9, 387
Timeless at Heart, 18
Transposition and Other Addresses, 219
The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’, 310, 315, 320, 324, 327
OTHER ‘After Ten Year’, 54, 356–7, 359, 397; ‘The Anthropological Approach’, 420
A Series of Ten Talks on Love, 402; ‘Ballade of a Winter’s Morning,’ 26; ‘Bleheris,’ (unpublished), 32; ‘Bulverism,’ 273, 275; ‘Caught,’ 110–11; ‘Christian Apologetics,’ 256; ‘Christianity and Culture,’, 48n, 142, 218; ‘Christianity and Literature,’ 141; ‘Couplets,’ 31–2; ‘Dangers of National Repentance,’ 236; ‘The Day with a White Mark,’ 291; ‘Death in Battle,’ 45
De Descriptione Temporum, 314, 350–1; ‘Divine Justice,’ 281; ‘Dogma and the Universe,’ 267; ‘Edmund Spenser 1552–99,’ 336n; ‘The Empty Universe’, 140; ‘Equality,’ 261–2; ‘Five Sonnets’; Foreword to Smoke on the Mountain, 335; ‘Forms of Things Unknown,’ 212–13; ‘Four Talks on Love’ (tape–recordings), 389; ‘God in the Dock,’ 244; ‘Hamlet the Prince or the Poem?’ 182; ‘Interim Report’, 365–6, 408; ‘Is Theology Poetry?’, 15, 189, 273; ‘It All Began with a Picture …’ 197, 302, 304–5; ‘Joy’, 72; ‘Kipling’s World,’ 159; ‘Learning in War–Time,’ 219, 286–7; ‘Loki Bound’ (unpublished), 22; ‘Membership,’ 262; ‘Ministering Angels,’ 212; ‘Miracles,’ 259, 285, 288; ‘Must Our Image of God Go?’ 422; ‘Nearly They Stood,’ 281; ‘On Obstinacy in Belief,’ 273; ‘On Stories,’ 51, 187; ‘On the Reading of Old Books,’ 98n, 221, 247; ‘On Three Ways of Writing for Children,’ 10, 301, 302, 327; ‘Our English Syllabus’, 156–7; ‘Outline of Narnian History,’ 316–20; ‘Priestesses in the Church?’ 263–4; ‘Religion and Rocketry,’ 204; ‘Religion without Dogma?’, 15; ‘Screwtape Proposes a Toast,’ 216, 229, 407–8; ‘To Roy Campbell,’ 171; ‘The Seeing Eye,’ 190; ‘The Shoddy Lands,’ 212; ‘Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to be Said,’ 314–15, 323; ‘Unreal Estates,’ 124; ‘The Vision of John Bunyan’, 128, 419, 435; ‘We Have No “Right to Happiness”’, 430–1, 432; ‘The Weight of Glory,’ 244–6, 256; ‘What Chaucer Really Did to Il Filostrato’, 125; ‘What the Bird Said Early in the Year,’ 78n; ‘Willing Slaves of the Welfare State’, 385;
Lewis, Elizabeth xix
Lewis, Florence Augusta ‘Flora’ (L’s mother, 1862–1908) ancestry, xix
birth, xxi; education, xxi; marriage, xxii; last holiday with boys, 6
move to Little Lea, 2
taste in literature, 3
death, 7–8, and Ewart family, 11
men. 45, 134
Lewis, Joseph (L’s great –
grandfather, 1803?–1890) xvii
Lewis, Joseph (son of Richard II, 1856–1908) xviii
Lewis, Martha (daughter of Richard I, 1854–1860) xviii
Lewis Martha Gee (wife of Richard II, 1831–1903) xviii
Lewis, Richard I (L’s great –
great –
grandfather, c. 1775–1845) xvii
Lewis, Richard II (L’s grandfather, 1832–1908) xvii –
xviii, xix, 7
Lewis, Richard III (son of Richard II, 1861– ?) xviii, xix, 134
Lewis, Sarah Jane (daughter of Richard II, 1856?–1901) xviii
Lewis, Warren Hamilton ‘Warnie’ (L’s brother, 1895–1973) his maternal grandmother, xx –
xxi; birth, xxii; and brother, 1
holiday with mother, 1; ‘Archpiggiebotham,’ 2
move to Little Lea, 2
and Boxen, 4– 5
to Wynyard School, 6
mother’s death, 7– 8
at Wynyard, 8– 9
to Malvern College, 10– 12
tutored by W.T.Kirkpatrick, 17
visits Malvern, 18
wins cadetship to Sandhurst, 22
on Arthur Greeves, 23
to Sandhurst, 23
joins Army Service Corps, 23
sent to France, 23
on Jack’s affair with Mrs Moore, 45– 6
on father’s failure to visit Jack, 46
Little Lea for Christmas, 49
on father’s quarrel with Jack, 53
on Jack’s establishment with Moores, 56
Owen Barfield contests his account, 57
he and Jack visit father, 61– 2
at Colchester, 73, last Christmas with father, 85
sails for Shanghai, 87
father’s death, 91– 2
invited to join Jack’s household, 93
arrives home, 93
he and Jack buy ‘The Kilns,’ 94– 5
convinced Christianity true, 112
returns to Oxford, 112
trip to Whipsnade Zoo, 115
edits ‘Lewis Papers,’ 118
re –
enlists for duty in China, 120
retires from Army, 133
to Scotland, 134
on walking tour, 135
his brother’s memory, 150
John Wain on, 168
reads Splendid Century to Inklings, 169
Tolkien on, 171
as member of Inklings, 171
on Inkling meetings, 172– 77
and J.A.W.Bennett, 173
called to active duty beginning World War II, 216
in French hospital, 226
rescue from Dunkirk, 227
and Mrs Moore, 233– 4
home for good, 235
joins Upper Thames Patrol, 255
meets E.R.Eddison, 261
with Jack to Durham, 277
essay for Charles Williams, 284– 5
with Jack to St Andrews, 285
hospitalised in Drogheda, 292– 3
holiday in Drogheda, 293
goes on binge, 304
and Narnian title, 311
Jack’s illness, 330– 1
another binge, 331
on Mrs Moore, 332
Jack’s letters from Joy Davidman, 334
meets Joy, 336
with Jack to Ireland, 337– 8
Jack afraid of leaving, 340, 342
encourages Jack to accept Cambridge chair, 343
with Jack in Ireland, 346
on Jack’s civil marriage, 375
talks to Daily Mail, 378
at brother’s wedding, 379
on Joy, 382–3
Sunset of the Splendid Century published, 383
heart damaged, 383– 4
helps Joy with biography, 389
last words with Joy, 398
her death, 399
in hospital, 404
on A Grief Observed; in Ireland, 406– 7
completes Scandalous Regent, 412
on Jack’s health, 414– 15
and Alcoholics Anonymous, 418
his drinking, 418– 19
to Ireland, 425
returns home, 431
looks after brother, 431– 3
men. 52, 58, 58, 71, 75, 88, 89, 90, 103, 121, 123, 145, 158, 164, 165–6, 220, 224–5, 250, 280, 303, 351, 353, 429, 430
Assault on Olympus, 383, 389
Brothers and Friends, 93, 112, 172–77, 234, 277, 281, 292, 304, 330–1, 334, 336, 350, 375, 379–80, 383, 398, 399, 412, 418–19, 433; ‘C.S.Lewis 1898–1963’ (unpublished), 1, 2, 5, 16, 18, 40, 49, 56, 203, 431
Levantine Adventurer, 414
Louis XIV, 412; ‘Memoir,’ 5, 19, 46, 57, 150
Scandalous Regent, 412
Splendid Century, 169, 282, 338
Sunset of the Splendid Century, 383;
Lewis, William (son of Richard II 1859–1946) xviii, 134
Lewis Papers, The 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 28, 29, 47, 52, 53, 63–4, 77, 87, 89, 118, 119, 301, 352–3
Liaisons Dangereuses, Les see Choderlos de Laclos
Lincoln College (Oxford) 48n
Lindos 395
Lindsay, David Voyage to Arcturus, 187, 211, 212
Listener, The 410
Literae Humaniores (‘Greats’) 24n, 49–50, 57, 58–9, 66n, 69, 71, 74n, 86n, 154n, 167, 175n, 219n, 289n
Literary Criticism 124–5, 140–2, 148, 183, 284, 347–8, 366, 408–11,
Little End Room (Little Lea) 23, 78, 80
Little Lea 2–3, 5, 6, 11, 21–2, 23, 38, 55, 61–2, 64, 70, 88, 91–4, 103, 113, 134, 150
Living Church, The 387–8
Logres 3, 209
London Magazine 9
Lloyd, Harold 81
Lloyd, Roger The Mastery of Evil, 220
Lloyd George, David 41–2
Locke, John 87
Lodge, Kenneth Ernest 17
Logic xxi, 23–4
Loki 22
London College of Music 391n
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 6
Lord Haw Haw 247 L’Osservatore Romano 293n
Lot 205
Louis XIV, King 169, 175n, 282, 383, 389, 412
Loutit, Bishop H.I. 387
Lovelace, Richard 51n
Lowes, John Livingston Road to Xanadu, 138
Lucian 186, 211
Lucifer see Satan Lucretius 46, 161
Lucy of Narnia, Blessed 306–7
Ludendorff, General Erich 42
Ludlow 66
Luke, St Gospel, 103, 142, 359
Lurgan College (Co. Armagh) xviii, 17
Lytton, Edward Bulwer The Coming Race, 322
McCallum, Ronald Buchanan 177, 178, 179
Macan, Reginald W. 29, 30, 51
MacDonald, George Collected Poems, 150
Diary of an Old Soul, 104
Golden Key, 303
Phantastes, 27, 53, 104, 109, 133
Princess and Curdie, 107, 303
Princess and the Goblin, 107, 303
What’s Mine’s Mine, 112
Wilfred Cumbermede, 114
Wise Woman, 303
Within and Without, 150
men. 28, 108, 113, 133–4, 282–3
McEldowney, M.M. 133–4
MacIlwaine, John H. xviii
MacIlwaine and Lewis Boiler Makers, Engineers, and Iron Ship Builders xviii
McKenna, Stephen Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman, 232–3
Mackenzie, Donald A. Teutonic Myth and Legend, 22
Maclean, Boyle, and Maclean (Dublin) xviii
McNeice, Louis Blind Fireworks, 86n
The Earth Compels, 86n
Poems, 86n
Springboard, 86n
Visitations, 86n
men. 86–7
McNeill, James Adams 209n
McNeill, Jane ‘Janie’ 209, 386
Macown, Edie xviii Maenads 21
Maeve 23
Magdalen College (Oxford) 52n, 59, 60, 62, 64, 69, 75–81, 83, 87, 91, 92–3, 100–1, 104, 120, 122–3, 127n, 139n, 145, 146, 147–8, 151–8, 163, 167, 168, 173, 175, 201, 209, 217, 233, 242–3, 251, 307, 308, 310, 313, 322, 336, 342, 349, 363, 366, 367, 368, 386, 406, 431
Magdalen College Archives 238
Magdalen College School (Oxford) 335n, 398, 406–7, 414, 418, 420
Magdalene College (Cambridge) 78, 251, 252, 341, 344–5, 351, 363–5, 367, 368, 377, 386, 390, 391, 397, 412, 415, 431
Magdalene College Magazine and Record 368–9, 401
Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigné 383, 389
Mallet, Paul Henri Northern Antiquities, 22
Malory, Sir Thomas Le Morte D’Arthur, 26, 27, 131, 148, 371, 430
Malvern College 10, 12, 16–22, 170, 209, 292, 363n
Mann, Erika 373–4
Mann, Thomas 374
Mark, King 48
Marlborough College 86n, 87n, 421n
Marlowe, Christopher 83
Mars 185, 191, 212
Marsh, David 403–4, 427
Martin, Kitty 333, 377, 378
Martin, Mother Mary 292, 384, 404
Martlets, The 50–1, 105, 124, 162
Marx, Karl 275
Mary, Blessed Virgin 187b, 218
Mary Magdalene, St 345
Masefield, John 65, 84, 85, 159, 183
Mason, A. E. W. At the Villa Rose, 9
Mathew, Archbishop David (with Gervase Mathew) Reformation and Contemplative Life, 167n
Mathew OP, Fr Gervase Byzantine Painting, 167n
Court of Richard II, 167n; (with David Mathew) Reformation and Contemplative Life, 167n
men. 167, 172, 174, 178. 195, 260
Matthew, St Gospel, 120, 142, 165, 201, 324
Matthews, Very Rev. Walter Robert 242
Maucroix, François 363n
May, Ronald 414
Medea 30
Medical Missionaries of Mary 292–3
Medusa 213
Megara 393, 394
Mendelssohn, Felix 153
Menelaus 313, 356–7, 359
Merchant Taylor’s School 47n
Mercury 185, 310
Merlin 53, 207–9
Mermaid Club 89
Merton, Thomas No Man is an Island, 417
Merton College (Oxford) 52n, 62n, 74n, 76n, 78, 81, 82n, 102, 146n, 155, 163, 173n, 219n, 305, 339, 340, 341n, 363, 367, 385
Methodist Church xvii, xviii, 253
Methodist College (Belfast) xxi
Michael, St 191, 230
Michael Hall School 56
Michaelmas Club 93
Middle English 64, 147
Milford, Sir Humphrey 137
Milford, Rev. Theodore Richard 218
Military Cross 41, 46n, 100n, 341n
Millar, H.R. 3
Miller, Maude ‘Molly’ 224, 382, 429
Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh, 307, 326
Milton, John Comus, 28, 224–5
Paradise Lost, 6, 7, 28, 149, 182–3, 184, 198, 230–1
Samson Agonistes, 65
men. 74, 83, 142, 147, 225–6, 351, 371
Minos 395–6
Miracles 259, 273
Modern Philology 361
Modern Poetry 54–5, 83–4
Molière Tartuffe, 368
Monteith, Charles 406
Moore, Edward Francis Courtney 38
Moore, Francis Edward Courtney ‘Paddy’ L’s roommate at Keble College, 37
L meets family, 38
promise to L, 39
to France with Rifle Brigade, 39
killed in battle, 46
his mother on, 47
L’s promise, 106
men. 233
Moore, Mrs Janie King Askins meets Lewis, 38
he visits Bristol, 39
Lewis’s promise to Paddy, 39
Paddy to France, 39
Lewis to France, 40
Lewis loves, 41
their relationship, 45– 6
Paddy killed, 46
on Paddy, 46– 7
visits Oxford, 50
moves to Oxford, 52
joint –
life with Lewis, 55– 6
Owen Barfield on, 57
reads L’s diary, 58; ‘domestic drudgery,’ 69
brother’s madness, 70
financial worries, 72
holiday in Exmoor, 77
holiday in Cornwall, 88
Warnie invited to join household, 93
moves to Kilns, 95
sees less of L, 120
and Paxford, 121– 2
and evacuated children, 217
Tolkien on, 217
her atheism, 233– 4
arthritis, 255
lameness, 291
Maureen helps, 292
friction with Vera Henry, 304
needs constant watching, 330
Warnie will not help, 331
in nursing home, 332
her death, 332
men. 64, 88, 216, 337, 360
Moore, Maureen Daisy Helen see Dunbar of Hempriggs, Lady
More, Paul Elmer 83–4
Morris, Clifford ‘A Christian Gentleman,’ 367– 8
men. 399
Morris, William Grettir the Strong, 26
Life and Death of Jason, 28
Love is Enough, 106–7
Well At the World’s End, 27, 371
men. 26, 27, 30, 51, 78, 113, 131, 158, 371
Mount Bernenchon 43
Murray, Gilbert 50, 54, 371, 372
Mycenae 393, 397
Mythology 15, 22, 31, 65, 86, 92, 103, 114, 116, 130, 164, 175, 185–6, 188–91, 194, 322, 327
Mythopoeia (and Mythopoeic) 164, 211, 327
Narnia/Narni (Italy) 306–7
Nature (and Naturalism) 273, 279, 288, 290
Natural Law 101, 160, 161, 241, 248–50, 276–80
Nesbit, E. ‘Aunt and Amabel,’ 321
Five Children – and It, 3
Harding’s Luck, 9
House of Arden, 9
Phoenix and the Carpet, 3
Story of the Amulet, 3, 322
Treasure Seekers, 308; ‘Unlikely Tales,’ 308
men. 10, 150, 301, 304, 305, 308, 313, 314, 322–3, 327, 328
Nero 9
Newbolt, Sir Henry John 37
New College (Oxford) 12n, 29, 74n, 86n, 164, 175n, 339
New English Bible, The 390
New Masses 334n
New Statesman and Nation 237
New Testament 287
New York 334, 337 New York Times 314
New Zealand 173n
Newman, John Henry Development of Christian Doctrine, 189–9
Dream of Gerontius, 425– 6
men. 142
Newton, Sir Isaac 87
Neylan, Mary 172
Nicea 251
Nicholson, Marjorie Voyages to the Moon, 194
‘Northernness’ 14, 15, 22
North West London Talmudical College 335n, 418, 429
Norse Sagas 22, 82, 92
Norton, Thomas (with T. Sackville) Gorboduc, 64
Nott, Kathleen Emperor’s Clothes, 348
Noyes, Alfred 84, 267
Nuffield, Viscount (William Richard Morris) 367
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre see Wingfield-Morris Hospital
Numbers 269
Numinor 209, 210
Observer, The 385, 421–2
Odin 116n
Officers’ Training Corps 29, 30, 36,
Old Icelandic 82
Old Inn (Crawfordsburn) 386, 391
Old Norse 82, 116n, 147
Old Testament 287
O’Neill, Joseph Land Under England, 322
Onions, Charles Talbut Advanced English Syntax, 64n
men. 64, 154
Only Toys! see F. Anstey Order of Jesus (Jesuits) 289
Oriel College (Oxford) 29, 66n, 76n, 154n, 413n
Original Sin 189–90, 222
Originality 28, 141, 183, 207, 267, 321
Orleans, Phillipe de France, Duc d’ 412
Orpheus 122
Orthodox Church 263, 395, 397
Orwell, George 267
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (Drogheda) 292–3, 384, 404
Ovid Pars Estis Pauci, 20– 1
men. 69
Oxford Cathedral 379n
Oxford Crematorium 399–400
Oxford Dante Society 167
Oxford High School 235 Oxford Magazine, The 91, 124, 163, 170, 177n
Oxford Mail 378
Oxford Summer Diversions 75
Oxford Union 37
Oxford Times, The 62–3
Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) 62n, 75
Paganism 13, 114, 116, 119, 175, 188, 189, 356, 397
Pannett, Juliet 421
Papworth, Mr (Lewis’s dog) 95, 122
Paradise 203, 281, 282
Pargny 46
Paris 42, 84, 280
Parkin, Col. Herbert Denis 292
Parnell, Thomas 162
Parson’s Pleasure 37
Parthenon, The 196, 393
Partridge, Sir Bernard 3
Pasley, (Sir) Rodney 51, 54, 57
Pastor Pastorum 165
Patmore, Coventry The Angel in the House, 105–6, 107
Patroklos 26
Paul, St Ephesians, 258
men. 116, 142, 416
Paul VI, Pope 264–5
Paxford, Alice Sophia 121n
Paxford, Frederick ‘Fred’ 121–2, 123, 241, 244–5, 255, 326, 340, 341, 342, 382, 392, 429
Peacock, Thomas Love Misfortunes of Elphin, 371
men. 66
Pearson’s 9
Pelagius 190
Pelham Downs Camp (Ludgershall) 47
Pelleas, Sir 371
Pellinore, Sir 371
Pembroke College (Cambridge) 355n
Pembroke College (Oxford) 177, 220
Penelope, Sister (A Religious of C.S.M.V.) Meditation of a Caterpillar, 187n
Wood for the Trees, 187n
men. 187–8, 198, 221, 235–6, 243–4, 247, 284, 285, 332, 345, 384, 419, 429–30
Pepys, Samuel 363n, 412
Peto, Michael 385
Petronius 161
Phaistos 396
Philosophy 70–1, 73–4, 76, 81n, 86, 100, 152
Philosophy, Politics and Economics 92n, 162n
Pierce, Claude 334, 337, 338
Pierce, Renée 334–5, 336–7, 338, 348
Pisa 396
Pitt, Valerie 274
Pitt, William 178
Pitter, Ruth First Poems, 160n
A Mad Woman’s Garland, 160n
Poems, 160n
Pitter on Cats, 160n
A Trophy of Arms, 160n
men. 159–60, 292, 338, 419
Pius XII, Pope 293n
Plato Republic, 325
Symposium, 109
men. 86, 136, 276
Platonism 356
Plotz, Dick 172
Plymouth Brethren 119
Pocock, Guy 84
Poe, Edgar Allan 206
Poetic Diction 372
Politian see Poliziano Poliziano, Angelo 212
Pontifical Council for the Family 349
Poor Servants of Divine Providence 293n, 294
Pope, Alexander 148, 162
Pornography 160
Potter, Beatrice Peter Rabbit, 301
Samuel Whiskers, 301
Squirrel Nutkin, 3, 6
men. 170, 322
Pound, Ezra 82n, 84, 260
Powell, Dilys 84
Powell, Frederick York Powell (with G.Vigfússon) Corpus Poeticum Boreale, 22
Poynton, Arthur Blackburne 50, 51, 74
Prentki, Tim Francis Warner, 391n
Pre –
Raphaelites, The 76
Presbyterian Church 17, 242, 253, 334
Preseau 41
Price, Cormell 78
Pride 105
Princeton University 74n
Prinknash Abbey 127n, 253
Procrustes 253
Prodigal Son, The 102 Prose Edda 22
Protestants 294, 295, 334n, 397
Protestant Evangelicals 222, 295
Proust, Marcel 370
Prudentius (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens) Liber Cathemerinon, 281
men. 135
Pseudo Apuleius Asclepius, 185
Psalms, The 82n, 177, 281, 304, 364, 389–90, 418, 419
Psyche 321, 351–9
Psychoanalysis 70n, 85, 287, 334n
Psychotherapy 409
Punch 3
Purgatory 424–6, 430
Puritanism 119
Pursglove, Glyn Francis Warner, 391n
Pusey House (Oxford) 154
Quakers 119
Queen’s College, The (Oxford) 146n, 164n, 166n, 173, 376n
Queen’s University (Belfast) xxi, 74n, 76n, 177
Queenstown (Co. Cork) xxi
Quennel, William Eyre Hamilton 20
Quiller-Couch, A. T. 84–5
Rabelais, François 211
Rachel xxi
Racine, Jean 83, 368
Rackham, Arthur 14, 15
Radcliffe Infirmary, The 166n, 171, 399
Radio Times, The 214
Radley College 155n
Raine, Kathleen 84, 415
Rakestraw, Dr Carolina 387–9
Raleigh, Sir Walter 64
Ramsey, A.M. The Resurrection of Christ, 220
Ransome, Arthur 308, 326
Rationalism 85, 93
Raven, C.E. 289
Rawlence, A.G. 43
Rayner, Karl 267
Reason 161, 267, 273, 287, 290
Reformation, The 351, 424–5
Refrigerium 280–1, 282
Renault, Mary The Bull from the Sea; The King Must Die, 372
Reporter, The (Cambridge) 364–5
Repton School 37
Responsions (Oxford University) 30, 36, 49
Restholme 332, 346
Resurrection, The 267, 324
Reveille 48
Revised Psalter, The 390
Reynolds, Barbara 193n, 215, 299
Rhodes 392, 394–5, 397
Rice-Oxley, Leonard 182
Richards, I.A. Principles of Literary Criticism, 140
Science and Poetry, 140– 1
men. 148
Riddell Memorial Lectures 276–7
Ridler, Anne 166n
Rieu, Emile Victor 372
Riez du Vinage 42–3
Rifle Brigade, The 37n, 39 Ring of the Nibelung see Richard Wagner
Roanoke College 295n
Robinson, Rt. Rev. J.A.T. Honest to God, 421–4
Redating of the New Testament, 421n
Roland, The Song of 27
Rolph, C.H. (ed) Trial of Lady Chatterley, 421, 435
Romanes, George John 431n
Romanes Lecture, The 431
Romanticism 28–9
Romantic Movement 71
Romantic Theology 136n, 137
Rome xix, xxi, 9, 139, 154n, 306
Romsey Abbey 134
Ros, Amanda McKittrick Irene Iddlesleigh; Poems of Puncture, 174
Ross, Alec 428
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 91
Rostrevor 337
Rowlings, J.K. 328
Rowse, Alfred Leslie 81, 432
Royal 9
Royal Air Force 168, 242–4, 250–2, 253, 255
Royal Army Medical Corps 70n
Royal Army Service Corps see Army Service Corps
Royal Corps of Signals 29n
Royal Field Artillery 100n, 341n
Royal Flying Corps 59n
Royal Fort Hotel (Rathmullan) 386, 391
Royal Magazine, The 12
Royal Military College (Sandhurst) 22, 62n
Royal Naval College (Dartmouth) 62n
Royal Navy xix, 242n
Royal Society of Literature Report, 218n, 431
Royal University of Ireland see Queen’s University (Belfast)
Rugby 413n
Rundstedt, General Gerd von 226
Ruskin, John 26
Sackville, Thomas see Thomas Norton
Sadism 161
Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest 71, 73
Sagas 65, 82m 88–9, 92–3
St Aldate’s Church (Oxford) 271n
St Anne’s Church (London) 348
St Anne’s College (Oxford) 271n, 354n
St Bartholomew’s Hospital (London) 20n
St Benedict’s Al Monte(Verona) 293n
St Catharine’s College (Cambridge) 391, 412
St Catherine’s College (Oxford) 64n, 378n, 379
St Cross Church (Oxford) 172
St Edmund Hall (Oxford) 24n
St Hilda’s College (Oxford) 342
St Hugh’s College (Oxford) 63, 289n
St John the Divine, Cathedral of (New York) 337
St John’s Church (Watford) 119
St John’s College (Oxford) 50n, 70, 151n, 167, 242n
St Jude on the Hill (London) 259
St Jude’s Gazette 259
St Leger, Warham ‘False Gallop of Analogies,’ 326
St Mark’s Church, Dundela xix –
xxii, 31, 132n, 134
St Mary Magdalen Church (Oxford) 428
St Mary the Virgin, University Church of (Oxford) 218–19, 244–6, 286–7
St Paul’s Cathedral 218n, 240n, 242, 389
St Peter’s College (Oxford) 391n
St Philip’s School (Birmingham) 62n
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman History of English Literature, 63–4
Salisbury, fourth Marquess of 291
Salisbury Plain 87
Sambourne, Edwin Linley 3
Sampson, Ashley ‘The Crusading Intellect,’ 286–7
Famous English Sermons, 218n
From the Ashes Poems, 218n
Ghost of Mrs Brown, 218n
Wolsey, 218n
men. 218, 219–20, 236
San Zeno Orphanage (Verona) 293n
Sandeman, Austin 71
Sandhurst see Royal Military College
Sargent, Paul 377
Sartre, Jean-Paul 273
Sassoon, Siegfried 48
Satan (Devil or Lucifer) xx, 105, 191, 192, 193–4, 199, 200, 201, 222, 229–32, 254, 287
Saturday Evening Post, The 407, 430–1
Saturn 16, 185
Satyrs 21
Sayer, George Jack, 160n, 170, 374, 375–6, 428– 9
men. 131–2, 175, 311, 375, 417
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, Vol. III, 211, 263
The Man Born to be King, 193n
The Mind of the Maker, 193n
Whose Body?, 193n
men. 193, 285, 293, 348, 378, 381
Schliemann, Heinrich 393
School Certificates 70
Science 272
Scot, Reginald Discoverie of Witchcraft, 306
Scotsman 48
Scott, Sir Walter 150, 159, 178, 350
Scriblerus Club 162
Scrutiny 141, 142, 409
Seafarer, The 63
Seaton, Ethel 182
Selly Oak College (Birmingham) 242n
Selwyn College (Cambridge) 392
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus 209
Seymour, William W. History of the Rifle Brigade, 46n
Shadowlands (Plato’s) 325
Shakespeare, William As You Like It, 73
Hamlet, 86, 100, 182
King Lear, 64
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 124, 158
Tempest, 4
Winter’s Tale, 114
men. 16, 28, 124, 147, 151, 178, 350
Shanghai 87, 92
Shelburne, Mary Willis 239, 296, 414–15, 417, 427
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 3, 95
Sherlock Holmes 9, 175, 302, 313, 371
Shmeruk, Chone 414
Sidney, Sir Philip 28
Sidney Sussex College (Cambridge) 240n
Sidonius Apollinaris 175n
Sienkiewicz, Henryk Quo Vadis?, 9
Siegfried 14–15, 127
Sieglinde 23
Silenus 322
Simon Magus 54
Sisam, Kenneth 135
Sleeping Beauty, The 303
Smith, David Nichol 64, 305
Smith, G.D. 255
Smith, Harry Wakelyn (‘Smewgy’) 20–1, 51
Smith, John Alexander 154, 155, 156
Smith, Lyn (ed) Swann’s Way, 434
Smithers, Geoffrey Victor Early English Verse and Prose (with J.A.W.Bennett and N. Davis); Havelok; Kyng Alisaunder, men. 340–1, 342, 343
Smollett, Tobias George 159
Society of St John the Evangelist 235
Socratic Club, The Oxford University 15, 24n, 166n, 167, 209, 271–7, 289–91 Socratic Digest, The 271–2, Somerset Light Infantry 40–4
Somerville, Martin Ashworth 37, 38
Somerville College (Oxford) 193n, 271, 272, 289, 369
Somnium Scipionis 186
Soper, David Wesley (ed) These Found the Way, 334n
Sophocles 51, 63, 83
Soundbox, The 15
South Africa 62n
Sparrow, John Hanbury Angus 86–7
Speaight, Robert 259
Spectator, The 283, 289, 410
Spenser, Sir Edmund The Faerie Queene, 26, 60n, 138, 370, 412, 418
men. 51, 69, 135, 148
Spirit of the Age 257
Spiritualism 70n
Staples, Rt. Hon. John xix
Stapleton, Olaf Last and First Men, 186, 198, 204
Star Gazer, 204
men. 211
Statius 369
Steiner, Rudolf 29n, 59n, 87n
Stein, Gertrude 84
Sthenno 213
Stephen, St 429
Stephen, Henry 96n
Stephens, James 3, 51
Sterne, Laurence Tristram Shandy, 25, 6, 94, 109
Stesichorus Palinodia, 357
Stevens, Courtney Edward ‘Tom Brown’ Sidonius Apollinaris, 175n
men. 175
Stevens, J.E. 369
Stevenson, Robert Louis Wrong Box, 364
men. 150, 371
Stevenson, Victoria Clover Magic; Magic Broom; Magic Footstool, 309n
Stock, Thomas 153
Stonehenge 75
Stopes, Marie 388
Strand Magazine, The 3, 9, 301, 302
Student Christian Movement 242n
Studley Priory 383, 399
Styx 281
Suffern, Lilian Hamilton (L’s aunt, 1860–1934) xix
Sunday Times, The 84
Supholme, A.C. 289
Sutter, Julie 28
Sutton, Alexander Gordon 37
Swann, Donald Swann’s Way, 403–4, 427
men. 403–4, 427
Swinburne, Algernon Charles Atalanta in Calydon, 21
Symbolism 325
Tablet, The 254–5, 259, 416
Taylor, Jeremy ‘Christ’s Advent to Judgement,’ 280–1
Whole Works, 290
men. 113
Tegner, Esaias Drapa, 6
Tenniel, Sir John 3
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, 202, 203
Tithonus, 385
Tennyson, G.B. ed. Owen Barfield on C.S.Lewis, 29n
Tertullian 177
Textual Criticism 92
Thackeray, William Makepeace Rose and the Ring, 308
men. 159
Theism 88, 96
Theology 142, 266–7, 289
Theosophy 70n
Thisted, Valdemar Adolph Letters from Hell, 28, 282
Thomas, D. Winton 389, 412, 418
Thomas Aquinas, St Collationes in Decem Praeceptis, 248
Thomson, James 79
Thor 22
Tibullus, Albius 16
Till, Dr Anthony Stedman 399
Tillich, Paul 268
Tillyard, E.M.W. Milton, 124; (with C.S.Lewis) The Personal Heresy, 138–9, 140
men. 138–9, 341, 410
Time (magazine) 293
Time and Tide 237, 255, 263
Times, The 29, 48, 76, 155, 252, 345, 371–2, 377, 378
Times Literary Supplement, The (TLS) 131, 138, 265, 283, 347–8, 410
Tindal, Martin 255
Tolkien, Arthur 62n
Tolkien, Christopher Reuel 168–9, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 282
Tolkien, Edith 62n, 398
Tolkien, Hilary 62n
Tolkien, Father John 430
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 309n; ‘Errantry,’ 163
Farmer Giles of Ham, 309
Hobbit, 62n, 133, 163, 327
Fellowship of the Ring, 62n, 421
Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien, 162, 164, 168–9, 170, 171, 172, 190, 205, 381, 382
Lord of the Rings, 62n, 78, 165, 168, 174, 178, 205, 210, 220, 328, 371
Lost Road, 164
Return of the King, 62n; (with Donald Swann) Road Goes Ever On, 403n
Silmarillion, 162, 210
Smith of Wootton Major, 309n
Two Towers, 62n
Biography, 62; first meets L, 81– 2
and Norse mythology, 92
influences Lewis’s conversion, 101
and doctrine, 105
instrument of L’s conversion, 114–16, 188
sees him often, 120
Monday meetings, 123
writes The Hobbit, 133
helps establish English syllabus, 157
plans for Ring cycle, 158
beginning of Inklings, 161– 5
he and L to write thrillers, 164
reads part of Lord of the Rings to Inklings, 165; Problem of Pain dedicated to, 166
writing Lord of the Rings, 168– 9
describes Inkling meeting, 169
and Roy Campbell, 170– 1
on Charles Williams, 172
introduces J.A.W.Bennett to Inklings, 173
Warnie Lewis on his Lord of the Rings, 174
L’s development of Christian doctrine, 190
Inklings vital period, 205
regrets influence of Williams on L, 205
L and Numinor, 210
L ‘always been taken in,’ 217
dines with E.R.Eddison, 261
on Great Divorce, 282
essay for Charles Williams, 285
dislikes Narnian stories, 307
and English syllabus, 339
Oxford’s prejudice, 340
elector of Cambridge chair of English, 341
determined L should have Chair, 342– 3
L fails to tell about marriage, 381– 2
disagrees with L on marriage and divorce, 382
meets Joy Davidman, 398
invites L to dinner, 420
visits L in hospital, 428
visits him at home, 430
men. 146, 174, 176, 178, 184, 186, 367
Tolkien, Mabel 56n
Tolkien, Michael Reuel 205, 381
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace, 159, 417
Touche, George Lawrence Capel 74
Tower of Babel 205
Traherne, Thomas Centuries of Meditation, 113
Tribune, The 266
Trinity, The Holy 265, 267
Trinity College (Cambridge) 341n, 409
Trinity College (Dublin) xix, 70n
Trinity College (Oxford) 24n, 71n, 72–3, 87n, 139n, 168, 253, 260n
Tristram, Sir 48
Trolls 75
Trout, The (Godstow) 218, 367, 417
Troy 54, 126, 356–7
Turner, F.McD.C. 369
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 3
Tynan, Kathleen Life of Kenneth Tynan, 151n
Tynan, Kenneth Peacock Curtains, 151n
Tynan Right and Left, 151n
men. 151, 417
Underhill, Evelyn Letters, 222– 3
men. 222–3
University College (Oxford) 29, 30, 36–7, 49–52, 59, 61n, 71–2, 76, 99, 100, 105, 155n, 162, 366–7, 431
University College (London) 341n
University College of North Wales 182
University College of Southampton 363n
University of Birmingham 61n, 147n
University of Durham 164n, 204, 205, 276–7, 341n
University of Hong Kong 146n
University of Keele 139n
University of Kentucky 426
University of Leeds 71n, 82n, 164n, 166n
University of London 8n, 82n, 164n
University of Manchester 71n, 431
University of Michigan 294n
University of Pittsburgh 295n
University of Reading 61n, 62n, 151n, 163, 166
University of St Andrews 285–6, 431
University of Virginia 294n
Valkyries 16m 89 Vanbrugh, Sir John 160n
Van Deusen, Mary 297
Vann, Fr Gerald The Heart of Man, 220
Varsity 409–10
Vatican, The 349
Vatican Council II 133
Vauban, Marquis Sébastien Le Prestre de 175
Venus 54, 185, 198–202, 351–2, 388
Verchain 41
Verne, Jules Voyage au Centre de la Terre, 322
men. 186
Verona 293n
Vers libre 50
Victoria College (Belfast) 209n
Vigfússon, G. see Frederick York Powell
Virgil 13, 82, 154n, 167, 174, 282, 350, 372
Vivisection 208
Volsung Saga 88–9
Voltaire Micromégas, 186
men. 161
Waddell, Helen 209n
Waddington, Conrad Hal Science and Ethics, 204
Wade Center, Marion E. 6n, 96n, 300
Wadham College (Oxford) 29, 59–60, 163–4
Wagner, Richard Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), 14–15, 20
Rhinegold, 18
Ring of the Nibelung, 15, 158–9
Siegfried, 14–15, 127
Valkyrie, 18, 158
The Rhinegold and the Valkyries, translated by Margaret Armour, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 18
Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, translated by Margaret Armour, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, 14
Wain, John A Winter in the Hills, 151n
Contenders, 151n
Hurry on Down, 151n
Sprightly Running, 151n, 168, 176, 274
men. 151, 167–8, 174, 178, 417
Wakeman, Jean 383, 413
Walking Tours 87–8, 91, 135
Wallace, Lew Ben Hur, 9
Walmsley, Lesley (ed) C.S. Lewis Essay Collection, 238
Walpole, Webb and Bewly Shipbuilders xviii
Walsh, Chad Afterword to A Grief Observed, 360
C.S.Lewis Apostle to the Skeptics, 91, 178, 295, 303–4, 334
men. 178, 294–5, 334, 336, 337, 350–1, 360, 380, 387, 388, 392, 397
Walsh, Eva 295n, 360
Walsh, John ‘Reminiscences,’ 368–9
Wanderer, The 63
War Office 86n
Wardale, Edith Elizabeth An Old English Grammar, 63
men. 63
Ware, Robert Remington 74
Warner, Francis King Francis I; Living Creation; Madrigals; Maquettes; Meeting Ends; Nightingales; Rembrandt’s Mirror; Spring Harvest, 391n
men. 391, 415
Warner, Nancy 415
Warren, Sir Herbert 62, 76, 87
Warren, Sir John Borlase xix Watling, Edward Fairchild 51, 59
Watson, Dorothy 332
Watson, George (ed) Critical Essays on C.S.Lewis, 180
Watt, Mrs John 385
Watts, Rev. Michael 428
Waugh, Evelyn Rossetti, 91
Webb, Clement Charles Julian 154, 185
Webb, Kaye 433
Webster, John; 83
Welch, Rev. James William 240–1, 248
Weldon, Thomas Dewar Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; States and Morals; Vocabulary of Politics, 100n
men. 100–1
Wellington, 1st Duke of 178
Wells 75, 77
Wells, H.G. First Men in the Moon, 186, 187, 211
men. 10, 186, 310
Westminster College (Cambridge) 242n
Wetherbee, Winthrop (trans.) ‘Cosmographia’ of Bernardus Silvestris, 184–5
Wheaton College 295n
Whipsnade Zoo 115, 120
Whistler, Sir Laurence Sir John Vanbrugh, 160n
men. 160–1, 291
White, T.H. Mistress Masham’s Repose; Sword in the Stone, 371
White Horse Hotel (Drogheda) 293, 331, 383–4
Whyte-Melville, George Gladiators, 9
Wide World Magazine The 9
Wilde, Oscar 161
Willey, Basil 340, 341, 343, 366, 431
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby All Hallows’ Eve, 78, 136n, 205
Forgiveness of Sins, 220
Greater Trumps, 136n
He Came Down from Heaven, 136n
House by the Stable, 165–6
Many Dimensions, 136n
Place of the Lion, 136–7; ‘Preface’ to World Classics Milton, 225–6
Seed of Adam and Other Plays, 166n
Shadows of Ecstasy, 136n
Taliessin Through Logres, 371
War in Heaven, 136n
men. 84, 135–8, 164–6, 169, 171–2, 204–5, 206, 217–18, 220, 224–5, 237, 261, 284, 381, 384, 405
Williams, Florence Conway 135n, 165
Williams, Michael Stansby 135n, 165
Williams, Phyllis 336
Willink, Sir Henry 341–5
Wilmart, Dom André 135
Wilson, Frank Percy 52, 62–3, 69, 71, 79, 135, 339, 341, 345
Winchester College 86n, 175n
Wingfield-Morris Hospital (later Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre) 375, 379
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 289n
Woburn Park 367–8
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 218n
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force 243
Wood, Hans Widman xix Woolf, Virginia 26
Worcester College (Oxford) 177n
Wordsworth, William The Prelude, 17
men. 71, 148
Wormwood Scrubbs Prison 242n
Wren-Lewis, John ‘The Chester-Lewis,’ 362
Wrenn, Charles Leslie 164, 165, 178
Wulfstan 87
Wycherley, William 83
Wycliffe Hall (Oxford) 242n
Wynyard School (‘Belsen’) 6, 8–10, 11, 12, 73, 119
Wyrall, Everard History of the Somerset Light Infantry, 42–3
Xenophon 25
Yeats, W.B. 3, 57–8, 159
Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin 429
Yiddish 414
Yoga 70n
Young, Andrew Collected Poems, 160n
Green Man, 160n
Out of the World, 160n
men. 160, 161, 291
Young, G.M. 267
Young, Rabbi M.Y. 418
Younger Edda 88–9
Zacchaeus 243
Zernov, Militza 397, 402
Zernov, Nicholas 397
Zeus 54
Ziman, Herbert David 74