Just to say that if others have difficulties with the Taliessin poems, the C.W.Society's small book of, so to speak, supplements to Lewis' commentary, edited...
... Thanks very much for that... I've just read them casually before, but find that I see much more in them when reading Lewis's commentaries. Also, the first...
It's that time of the year again... Next month is National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) And once again I want to challenge readers of this forum to write a...
I’m in two minds about whether to join NaNoWriMo this year. For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is National Novel-Writing Month, and the aim to to write a...
Liturgy, saints, and postmodern discourse... That's the title of a couple of blog posts. I was commenting on someone else's post here http://tinyurl.com/6jzhl2...
I've been reading Virginia Woolf's "A writer's diary", and got curious about why it never mentioned Roy Campbell, who had at one point been associated with the...
... Well, I tried. Today I lay in the bath reading Virginia Woolf's "A writer's diary", and fell asleep on each page, but thinking about it in between I...
I've just discovered that there is to be a mythology synchroblog tomorrow (1 December), on mythical monsters. It may be too late for some, but if anyone is...
Today there is a synchroblog on the general theme of mythology, and the specific topic of "Mythical monsters and otherworldly entities" For anyone interested...
I read a very thought-provoking blog post today from "A Mule in the chapter house". Here's a quote: === begin quote === The Church is not the interior of the...
There's an interesting blog post on "The greater trumps" and Charles Williams's use of the Tarot here: http://tinyurl.com/b6tlmv I disagree with the author's...
(Im indebted to Iambic Admonit for the following, reprinted from The C. S. Lewis society of California's email newsletter "Logos: The C.S. Lewis Society ...
Here's a snippet from a conversation on Usenet: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:48:01 -0400, John W Kennedy <jwkenne@...> ... greater ... "Shadows of ecstasy"...
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:22:38 -0400, in alt.books.cs-lewis "AJA" ... Quite an interesting point. The quotations from Lewis seem to me to be quite compatible...
I've never heard of these two works ("Eager Spring" and "Night Operation") but they're bibliography on the Owen Barfield Society webpage, so I guess they're...
You are all invited to the launch party of the Dark Mountain Project, a new literary movement for a tie of global disruption. We toyed with the idea of finding...
For several years I've kept in touch with people who share similar literary interests by means of Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. Now many ISPs are ...
This was originally posted on the Coinherence-l group on the work of Charles Williams, but I thought it might be of interest here too ... Ronald Hutton, in his...
The Inklings shared a passionate concern for a rather unusual constellation of interests: Christianity, myth, imaginative literature, linguistics and history....
Is anyone in this forum planning to take part in National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Three years ago I challenged people in Inklings forums to take part...
Is anyone in this forum planning to take part in National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Three years ago I challenged people in Inklings forums to take part...
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I recently received a message from Amazon: === begin quote === We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy,...
In the late 1960s or early 1970s the pop group Tyrannosaurus Rex (later T Rex) with Marc Bolan produced a record with the title "My people were fair and had...
There is an interesting comment on the blog post "Charles Williams, sigh...". http://moscowcoffeereview.com/carpecakem/2009/11/05/charles-williams-sigh/ ...
If it is a mattre of literary style, I entirely agree - Wlliams is wildly inconsistent. If it's a matter of inteensity of thought, I don't agrre - Willimas and...