The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings (114 page)

Sr Penelope Lawson, CSMV
(Courtesy of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage, Oxfordshire)

Lord David Cecil and Rachel MacCarthy on their wedding day, at St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London, October 13, 1932
(© TopFoto / The Image Works)

Nevill Coghill with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at Merton College on October 14, 1967, eve of the premier of the Oxford University Drama Society production of
Doctor Faustus
(© TopFoto / The Image Works)

Gervase Mathew, O.P.
(© Douglas R. Gilbert)

John Barrington Wain
, October 1958
(© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Philip Zaleski
and
Carol Zaleski
are the coauthors of
Prayer: A History
and editors of
The Book of Heaven
. Philip Zaleski is the author of
The Recollected Heart
, coauthor of
Gifts of the Spirit
, and editor of the Best Spiritual Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing series, and Carol Zaleski is a professor of world religions at Smith College and the author of
Otherworld Journeys
and
The Life of the World to Come
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ALSO BY
PHILIP ZALESKI
AND
CAROL ZALESKI

The Book of Heaven
(editors)

Prayer: A History

ALSO BY PHILIP ZALESKI

The Best American Spiritual Writing series (editor)

The Best Spiritual Writing series (editor)

Gifts of the Spirit
(coauthor)

The Recollected Heart

ALSO BY CAROL ZALESKI

The Life of the World to Come

Otherworld Journeys

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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Prologue: Dabblers in Ink

1.
“A Star Shines on the Hour of Our Meeting”

2.
Heaven in a Biscuit Tin

3.
Advent Lyrics

4.
Hard Knocks and Dreaming Spires

5.
“Words Have a Soul”

6.
A Mythology for England

7.
Wanted: An Intelligible Absolute

8.
A Meeting of Minds

9.
Inklings Assemble

10.
Romantic Theology

11.
Secondary Worlds

12.
War, Again

13.
Mere Christians

14.
Loss and Gain

15.
Miracles

16.
“Making Up Is a Very Mysterious Thing”

17.
The Long-Expected Sequel

18.
The Dialectic of Desire

19.
Inklings First and Last

Epilogue: The Recovered Image

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Illustrations

A Note About the Authors

Also by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski

Permissions Acknowledgments

Copyright

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

Owen Barfield: Excerpts from the introduction to
Romanticism Comes of Age
; excerpt from “Moira” from
Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis
, edited by G. B. Tennyson. Both reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Excerpt from “Air Castles” from
Punch
(February 14, 1917); excerpts from “C.S.L.: Biographica Theologica”; Owen Barfield Papers, Marion E. Wade Center OB/MS-6. English translation by John Zaleski. Excerpt from a letter (July 6, 1951), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1055. Excerpt from a letter (December 29, 1957), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1055. Excerpt from “Origin of U.S. Connection” (August 30, 1963), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1054. Excerpts from a letter to Philip Mairet (March 28, 1964), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1074. Excerpt from a letter to Professor Colburn (February 16, 1963), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1054. Excerpt from a letter to R. J. Reilly (April 17, 1969), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1056. Excerpt from a letter to Craig Miller (March 28, 1964), Owen Barfield Papers, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1074. Excerpt from “Information for My Literary Executors” (April 1985), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1255. Excerpts from an interview with Walter Hooper (July 15, 2006). All reprinted with the permission of the Owen Barfield Estate.

Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis: Excerpts from “Poema de XVI Animalibus arcem Noam intrantibus” (January 1929), Owen Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1104, folio 3. In Latin, with English translation by Carol Zaleski. Excerpt from “Abecedarium Philosophicum” from
The Oxford Magazine
52 (November 30, 1933): 298. Extracts by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Both reprinted with the permission of the Owen Barfield Estate and C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd.

John Betjeman: Excerpt from “A Hike on the Downs” from
Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse
, copyright 1937 by John Betjeman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Hodder Headline, plc.

Simon Blaxland–de Lange: Excerpts from
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, copyright © 2006 by Simon Blaxland–de Lange. Reprinted with the permission of Temple Lodge Publishing Ltd.

David Cecil: Excerpts from a letter to Ruth Pitter, from Don W. King,
Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter
, copyright © 2008 by the Kent State University Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publishers.

Neville Coghill: Excerpt from “The Approach to English” from
Light on C. S. Lewis
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Joy Davidman: Excerpts from
Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman
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Walter de la Mare: Excerpts from letters to Owen Barfield (June 14, 1950, and November 16, 1949), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1055. Used by permission of the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their representative.

Roger Lancelyn Green: Excerpt from diary, from Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper,
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
,
Fully Revised and Expanded Edition
, copyright © 1974 by Roger Lancelyn Green, as Executor of the Estate of Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Scirard Lancelyn Green, the C. S. Lewis Co., Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd. All rights reserved.

Alice Mary Hadfield: Excerpts from
Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work
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Albert Lewis: Excerpts from letters to C. S. Lewis and Warren Lewis, and diary entries, from “The Lewis Family Papers or Memoirs of the Lewis Family (1850–1930).” Unpublished typescript edited by Warren Hamilton Lewis in 11 volumes, 1933–1935. © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. All reprinted with the permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Il., and the C. S. Lewis Co., Ltd.

C. S. Lewis: Excerpts from preface, “On Stories,” and “It All Began with a Picture” from
Essays Presented to Charles Williams
; reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Ltd.,
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. Excerpts from letters and diary excerpts; excerpts from
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters 1905–1931
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The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931–1949
, edited by Walter Hooper, and from
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950–1963
, edited by Walter Hooper; excerpts from “My Life during the Exmas Holadays of 1907” from “The Lewis Family Papers or Memoirs of the Lewis Family (1850–1930),” III: 88–92; unpublished typescript edited by Warren Hamilton Lewis in 11 volumes, 1933–1935; excerpt from unsigned review of J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Hobbit
, from
The Times
(London) 47810 (October 8, 1937); excerpt from dust cover for J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Fellowship of the Ring
; five-line verse (“Beauty and brains and virtue never dwell / Together in one place, the critics say…”); excerpt (“How can I ask thee Father to defend / In peril of war my brother’s head to-day.”); excerpts from
Broadcast Talks
. “Father Gervase”; excerpt from
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
; extracts by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. All reprinted by permission of the C. S. Lewis Co., Ltd. Excerpts from
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
, copyright © 1956 by C. S. Lewis and renewed © 1984 by Arthur Owen Barfield. Excerpt from
The Four Loves
, copyright © 1960 by C. S. Lewis, renewed 1988 by Arthur Owen Barfield. “French Nocturne (Monchy-Le-Preux)” and excerpts from “Ballade Mystique,” “Satan Speaks,” “De Profundis,” “Ode for New Year’s Day,” “In Praise of Solid People,” and “The Ass” from
Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics
, edited by Walter Hooper, copyright © 1964 by the Executors of the Estate of C. S. Lewis, renewed © 1992 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Excerpts from
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–1927
, copyright © 1991 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Excerpt from diary entry (January 26, 1923) in
Letters of C. S. Lewis: Edited and with a Memoir by W. H. Lewis
, Revised and Enlarged Edition, edited by W. H. Lewis, copyright © 1966 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Excerpts from “Dymer” from
Narrative Poems
, edited by Walter Hooper, copyright © 1969. Excerpt from a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien, as quoted in Christopher Tolkien, introduction to the “Lay of Leithian” in J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-earth, Volume 3
), edited by Christopher Tolkien, copyright © 1985 C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. “The Apologist’s Evening Prayer” from
Poems
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