... Yes, that's her. She's now primarily known for a lot of quasi-feminist quasi-fantasy novelizations of all sorts of medieval and quasi-medieval stories...
... The introduction, by Bernadette Lynn Bosky, to my edition of _The Masques of Amen House_ discusses the circumstances and atmosphere surrounding the ...
Lewis was of course aware of Holst's music, but thought the only resemblance to his own use of astrology was simply the origin. In one of his letters to Sister...
Richard Sturch
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May 1, 2003 8:31 pm
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In his letters to Arthur Griffiths "We Stand Together", Lewis talks about Holst's Saturn, Uranus, Neptune etc. He didn't like Holst's Jupiter much, but very...
suzanne bray
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May 2, 2003 11:35 am
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Who is Arthur Griffiths? Is this Dom Bede Griffiths? I've never heard of a collection of letters entitled We Stand Together. Please add more when you have a...
He is Arthur Greeves, Lewis's boyhood friend in Ireland and the book is They stand together, later re-issued as The letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves...
Sarah E Thomson
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May 2, 2003 12:47 pm
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Sorry, I must have been half asleep, it's Arthur Greeves (I have a friend called Arthur Griffiths !). I have now found the book. The passage from "They Stand...
suzanne bray
bray_suzanne@...
May 2, 2003 12:54 pm
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The Figure of Beatrice pp84-5 So the noble soul in this last period blesses the bygone times — ‘and well she may — e bene li puo benedire.’ She...
Holst's planetary portraits are also medieval rather than modern in their astrological nature. Lewis's comments are quibbles about taste and emphasis. Holst,...
Ageed, a good collection. Arthur was his 'first friend' and he never lost contact with him. That collection, and 'All My Road Before Me' (CSL journals from the...
... Part has already been published. Volume one (Family Letters 1905-1931) was published in 2000, and volume two (The Christian Scholar 1931-1951) is expected...
I am slowly reading my way through the new collection of CW's reviews of murder mysteries. One per night. ;-) One infers that he had fun writing them. I like...
The Figure of Beatrice pp86-87 THE DE MONARCHIA AND THE EXILE On 8 June 1290 Beatrice died. Dante, it will be remembered, had in the Vita quoted Jeremiah:...
I can't help wondering whether the first reference in the "Inferno"to Celestine V really is to him at all. It is to someone who in cowardice made "il gran...
Richard Sturch
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May 26, 2003 5:06 pm
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Dear Richard Yes, the rich young ruler certainly made an archetypal refusal; and it is certainly difficult to recognise the saintly Celestine V in Dante's...
Although I probably would not have got there on my own (without the notes) I'm thinking Celestine V is the most likely referent. Certainly that decision -...
Hello, everyone -- I'm new to the list. I teach literature and religion at a small college in New Jersey, and I've been interested in the work of Charles...
Hi, Gerry! Welcome aboard. Could the reference be to 'discerning hearts' rather than 'thinking hearts'? SherryT ... Imagination is the one weapon in the war...
It might be, but the phrase (as I remember it) was "thinking hearts." Would you please provide a reference for "discerning hearts?" Many thanks in advance. ...
I believe that the reference is to mens sensitiva (feeling intellect), and it is from Wordsworth, maybe The Prelude. Williams refers to this in a number of...
Stephen Dunning
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May 28, 2003 1:47 pm
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... FROM the chapter on Wordsworth: "my heart's specious cowardice" (Wordworth quoted, p. 159) "man's enduring mind" (p. 168) "poor humanity's afflicted will"...
jchristopher@...
May 28, 2003 3:23 pm
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The reference to mens sensitva is from Book XIV of the Prelude. I don't know where Williams discusses this, though it might be in one of his treatments of...
Stephen Dunning
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May 28, 2003 4:09 pm
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Gerry, I may have given you an incorrect impression about what I meant earlier. I can't remember a place where CW uses either expression. However, the...
PWordsworth uses the phrase in the second part of his poem "Hart-Leap Well" THE moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis...
Thank you! ... From: Allan Dewar [mailto:AMDewar@...] Sent: Sat 5/31/2003 5:38 AM To: coinherence-l@yahoogroups.com Cc: Subject: RE: [coinherence-l]...
There are several references to Wordsworth and the mens sensitiva in the Taliessin poems. Without having checked, I would say Son of Lancelot and the Coming...
Angelika Schneider
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Jun 2, 2003 1:51 pm
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I'm reading Descent into Hell for the second time. I was pleased to run across Williams' description of the "terrible good". It reminded me of another account...
In response to Mark Steele's note on angels: The Herald Angel illustrated in the Golden Press book THE FIRST NOEL, 1959, stands some 50 feet tall (an estimage)...
... But JRR Tolkien managed to make some female characters quite awesome when appropriate. I think in particular of Galadriel when Frodo offered her the ring....
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