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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful first of all to Paul Elie for his generous encouragement, beginning when he acquired The Fellowship for Farrar, Straus and Giroux and continuing without break after he left for Georgetown University’s Berkley Center. Happily, Paul entrusted us to Alexander Star at FSG, who steered The Fellowship safely to its conclusion; we are full of admiration for Alex’s penetrating and learned insight into all aspects of our project. Our thanks go also to editorial assistant Laird Gallagher, copy editor Frieda Duggan, production editor Chris Peterson, senior vice president Jeff Seroy, president and publisher Jonathan Galassi, and everyone else at FSG.
A special thank-you is extended to Owen Barfield, whose letters and phone calls in the 1980s to a young writer (Philip Zaleski) helped inspire this book. We owe a great debt to Owen A. Barfield (grandson, and trustee of the Owen Barfield literary estate), Léonie and Stratford Caldecott, Kate Farrell, Alastair Fowler, Walter Hooper, Lois Lang-Sims, and Fr. Robert Murray, S.J., for generously sharing their firsthand knowledge of our subjects. We thank the Bodleian Library in Oxford for the privilege of reading unpublished Inklings material, including the recently catalogued Barfield Papers. For the same privilege, we thank associate director Marjorie Lamp Mead, archivist Laura Schmidt, and former archivist Heidi Truty at the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College in Illinois. We were deeply honored to receive the Wade Center’s award of the Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant for 2014.
For help in locating photographs and for permission to use them, we especially wish to thank the Tolkien scholar John Garth and Alison Wheatley, archivist of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham (for identifying and sharing the rare photo of Tolkien with the KES cadet corps), Sister Jean Frances, C.S.M.V. (for Sister Penelope), Adrian Rance-McGregor and Kathryn Spink (for the young Bede Griffiths), Owen A. Barfield, Douglas Gilbert, Martin Macgregor, Harry Lee Poe, and Laura Schmidt at the Wade Center. We thank our wonderful agents, Kimberly Witherspoon and David Forrer of InkWell Management, for years of friendship, guidance, and support, and Frederick T. Courtright and the Permissions Company for skillfully handling a very complicated set of permissions issues. We thank Smith College for generous sabbatical research time and funding; and the acquisitions, circulation, interlibrary loan, and reference staff at Neilson Library, Smith College, for their kind attention and selfless assistance. We thank our student assistants for their enthusiasm for all things Inkling, medieval, and Romantic: Kiersten Acker, Liz Casler, Emma De Lisle, Gwen Gethner, Megan Kearney, Natalie Sargent, and Alexandra Zaleski; Janet Brennan Croft, Craig Davis, Robert Easting, Alan Jacobs, Fr. Ian Ker, William Oram, Kimberley Patton, Fr. Gregory Phillips, O.S.B., the late G. B. Tennyson, John F. Thornton, and Ptolemy Tompkins for encouragement and advice; Kriston Rucker and Anne Larlarb for love and cheer; John Zaleski for translation help; Andy and John Zaleski for filling our lives with joy, wisdom, love, and exuberance; and the Caldecott family for true fellowship in Oxford and beyond.
We are especially grateful to the scholars cited in our notes and bibliography, who have devoted their lives to conserving, editing, and interpreting the literary legacy of Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, Williams, and their associates, and to all those, named and unnamed, whose contributions to the growing field of Inklings studies would, if listed in full, swamp the book.
INDEX
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“Abecedarium Philosophicum” (Barfield and Lewis)
Abercrombie, Lascelles
Abolition of Man, The (Lewis)
Ace Books
Ackerman, Forrest J.
Adams, Walter
Addison, Joseph
Adoration of the Magi (Morris)
Adrian IV (pope)
Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (Tolkien)
AE (George William Russell)
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeschylus
Aesop
Afrikaans
Afterwards (Tolkien)
Agape Fund
Agrippa, Cornelius
Aïda (Verdi)
“Air Castles” (Barfield)
Aldwinckle, Stella
Alexander, Samuel
Al-Ghazālī
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
All Hallows’ Eve (Williams)
allegory, (see also Allegory of Love, The; Pilgrim’s Regress, The); in Narnia books; parody of; in poetry; in science fiction
Allegory of Love, The (Lewis)
Allen & Unwin
All My Road Before Me (Lewis)
Allott, Kenneth
Al-munqidh min al-dalāl (The Deliverer from Error) (al-Ghazālī)
Alphabet of Rúmil
Altizer, Thomas J.J.
Amen House
America
Amis, Kingsley
Analects (Confucius)
Ancrene Wisse
Anderson, Douglas A.
Angel in the House (Patmore)
Angles
Anglican Church; Barfield’s baptism in; converts to Roman Catholicism from; holy orders in; Irish; Lewis and; moral theology of; at Oxford University; Williams and
Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxons; language of, see Old English/Anglo-Saxon
Angry Young Men
Animalic
Annan, Noel
Anscombe, G.E.M. (Elizabeth)
Anstey, F.
Anthroposophy; American interest in; Christianity and; de la Mare’s interest in; Lewis’s rejection of; Maud Barfield’s animosity to; Nazi ban on; See also Steiner, Rudolf
anti-Catholicism
Anya (Davidman)
apologetics; of Lewis (see also titles of specific books)
“Apologist’s Evening Hymn” (Lewis)
Apolausticks
Apostles, the
Apuleius
Aquinas, see Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Aquinas and Kant (Ardley)
Arbuthnot, John
Ardley, Garvin
“Are There Any Valid Objections to Free Love?” (Williams)
Ariosto, Ludovico
Aristotle
Arnold, Matthew
Arras, Battle of
Art (Bell)
Art of the Cave Dweller (Brown)
Arthurian legends; Williams’s fascination with
Arthurian Torso (Williams)
Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement
Artzybasheff, Boris
Asclepius (Pseudo-Apuleius)
Asiatic Society of Bengal
Askins, John “Doc”
“Ass, The” (Lewis)
Assault on Olympus (W. Lewis)
Assumption of the Virgin (Titian)
Assyrian
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
At the Back of the North Wind (MacDonald)
atheism; of Barfield; of Kirkpatrick; Lewis and; opposition to
Auden, W. H.
Augustans and Romantics (Dyson and Butts)
Augustine, St.
“Aunt and Amabel, The” (Nesbit)
Austen, Jane
Ave Maria
Ayer, A. J.
Babbitt (S. Lewis)
“Babylon” (Graves)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bacon, Francis
Bacon, Roger
Baha’i
Baker, Leo Kingsley
Ball, Robert Stawell
“Ballade Mystique” (Lewis)
Ballantine Books
Balzac, Honoré de
Baptists
“Barbarians and Citizens” (C. Tolkien)
Barfield, Alexander (Owen’s son)
Barfield, Arthur (Owen’s father)
Barfield, Elizabeth (Owen’s mother)
Barfield, Jeffrey (Owen’s son)
Barfield, Lucy (Owen’s daughter)
Barfield, Matilda (“Maud” née Douie; Owen’s wife); in America; animosity to Anthroposophy of; children adopted by; marriage of Owen; old age and death of
Barfield, Owen; academic interest in; Allegory of Love dedicated to; American success of; Bellow and; childhood and adolescence of; children adopted by; dancing of; death of; depression of; essay in memorial volume for Williams by; fascination with language of; “Great War” debates of Lewis and; influence on Lewis of; on inception of Inklings; law practice of; and Lewis’s conversion; Lewis’s friendship with; at Lewis’s funeral; marriage of; on Mrs. Moore; novels by; old age of; personal characteristics of; Pitter and; plays by; poetry by; rejected for Magdalene College tutorship; spiritual views of; stutter of; in World War I; during World War II
Barfield, Owen A. (Owen’s grandson)
Barnacle, Nora
Barrett, Grant
Basque
Bassano, Jacopo
Bateson, F. W.
“Battle of Maldon, The”
Baxter, Mrs. E. L.
Baxter, Richard
Baynes, Pauline
BBC; Barfield’s talks on; dramatic readings of Tolkien’s works on; Lewis’s World War II talks on; Sayers’s Jesus play on
Beatrice
Beat writers
Beaumont, Francis
Beckett, W. Eric
Bede, St.
Beerbohm, Max
Before (Tolkien)
Behold the Spirit (Watts)
Beith, John Hay
Bell, Clive
Belloc, Hilaire
Bellow, Saul
Beloit College
Benedictines; Anglican
Bennett, Arnold
Bennett, Henry Stanley
Bennett, J.A.W.
Benson, R. H.
Benson, Richard Meux
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
Beowulf
“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” (Tolkien)
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, George
Bernard of Clairvaux, St.
Betjeman, John
Beyond Personality (Lewis)
Bible; Deuteronomy; Exodus; Genesis; Isaiah; John; Jonah; Joshua; Judges; Luke; Numbers; Peter; Psalms; Revelation; Romans; Samuel; Song of Songs; Ten Commandments; Timothy
Bide, Peter W.
“Bill Stickers” (Tolkien)
Biographia Literaria (Coleridge)
“Biographia Theologica” (Barfield)
Birmingham University
Blackfriars
Blackwell, Basil
Blackwood, Algernon
Blake, William
Blamires, Harry
Blavatsky, Helena
Blaxland–de Lange, Simon
Blickling Homilies, The
Bloomsbury Group
Blunden, Edmund
“Bluspels and Flalansferes” (Lewis)
Bodkin, Maud
Boers
Boethius
Bohm, David
Book of Common Prayer
“Book of the Foxrook, The” (Tolkien)
Book of Lost Tales, The (Tolkien)
Books on Trial
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borrow, George
Bosanquet, Bernard
Boshell, Patricia
Boswell, James
Bosworth, Joseph
Bottomley, Gordon
Bowra, Maurice
Boxen
Bradley, F. H.
Bradley, Henry
Brady, Charles A.
Brandeis University
Bratman, David
Bratt, Edith, see Tolkien, Edith (née Bratt)
Brendan, St.
Brewer, Derek
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Bright Young Things
Brinkworth, Guy
Britain, Battle of
British Academy
British Columbia, University of
British Council
British Expeditionary Force
British Foreign Office
British Library Association
Broad, Dorothy
Broadcast Talks (Lewis); See also Mere Christianity
Brogan, Hugh
Brontës
Brook, G. L.
Brooke, Rupert
Brown, Gerald Baldwin
Brown, Norman O.
Bruno, Giordano
Buchanan-Riddell, John Walter
Bucke, Richard Maurice
Buddha
Bulgarian
Bunyan, John
Burchfield, Robert
Burckhardt, Jacob
Burgeon, G.A.L. (Barfield pseudonym)
Burgess, Anthony
Burke, Edmund
Burne-Jones, Edward
Burton, Richard
Butler, Theobald
Butterfield, Herbert
Butterfield, William
Butts, John
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
C. S. Lewis (Walsh)
C. S. Lewis in a Time of War (Phillips)
Cædmon
Caird, Edward
Calabria, Don Giovanni
“Calling of Arthur, The” (Williams)
Cambridge University; Lewis’s chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at; new critical movement at; RAF Chaplains School at
Campbell, Roy
Campbell College
Campion, Ed
mund
Camus, Albert
Candida (Shaw)
Canisius College
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Capron, Robert “Oldie”
Captain, The
Carpenter, Harry James
Carpenter, Humphrey
Carritt, E. F.
Carroll, Lewis
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catenian Association
Catholicism; Anglo-; antagonism toward, see anti-Catholicism; converts to; Eucharist in; of Griffiths; in Ireland; in Italy; Joyce’s upbringing in; Lewis’s views on; at Oxford; of post–World War II new Inklings; pre-Reformation, in England; in Tolkien’s mythology; Vatican II and changes in; Williams and; during World War II; See also Jesuits
Catholic World
Catullus
Cavaliero, Glen
Cave, the
Cecil, Lord David
Cecil, Rachel
Cellini, Benvenuto
Celtic mythology
Celtic Revival
Celts
Centenary Press
“Century of Poems for Celia, A” (Williams)
Cevasco, G. A.
“Chaining of Melko, The” (Tolkien)
Chambers, R. W.
Chapman, R. W.
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Shaftesbury)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheke, John
Chequers Clubbe
Cherbourg Preparatory School
Cherwell, The
Chesterton, G. K.; Catholicism of; cosy little cosmos of; critique of skepticism; narrative loop deployed by; religious influence on Lewis of
Children of Húrin, The (Tolkien)
Chopin, Frédéric
Chrétien de Troyes
Christian Behaviour (Lewis)
Christianity; charitable giving and; evangelization for; Inklings united by; Jews and; of Joy Davidman; language and; Lewis’s conversion to; in Lewis’s fantasy fiction, see Chronicles of Narnia; titles of individual books; Lewis’s renunciation of; of Milton; moral foundation for; mystical; mythopoeic; new criticism and; occult; orthodoxy; at Oxford; Platonic; radio broadcasts on; post-Christian culture and; romantic love and (see Allegory of Love; Figure of Beatrice); in science fiction (see also titles of specific books by Lewis and Williams); theology and philosophy of (see also apologetics); virtues in; war and; see also Catholicism; Protestantism
“Christianity and Aesthetics” (Lewis)
Christianity Past and Present (Wiley)
Christianity Today
Christian Mystery, The (Lang-Sims)
Christian Reflections (Lewis)
“Christians in Danger” (Lewis)
Christian Symbolism (Williams)
Christopher, John
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