Selected Literary Essays

About this book

This volume available in print for the first time since 1980 includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis most important literary essays written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling from The literary impact of the authorised version to Psycho-analysis and literary criticism from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay however are the lively wit the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterise Lewis best critical writing.