Joan of Arc
John Paul II, Saint (pope)
Johns Hopkins University
Johnson, Laurence Bertrand
Johnson, Paul
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, Alexander
Jones, David
Jones, Phyllis
Jones, William “Asiatic”
Jonson, Ben
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of Bible and Religion
Joyce, James
Jung, Carl
Jungle Book, The (Kipling)
Jutes
Kafka, Franz
Kalevala
Kant, Immanuel
Karo, Joseph
Keats, John
Keble, John
Keele, University of
Kennedy, John F.
Kenny, Anthony
Kermode, Frank
Kerouac, Jack
Ketley, Martin
Keynes, John Maynard
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kilby, Clyde S.
King, Alec
King, Don
King Edward’s School (Birmingham); Cadet Corps; Literary Society
King of the Golden River, The (Ruskin)
King’s College, London
King’s Ring, The (Lewis)
Kinter, William L.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirby, William Forsell
Kirkpatrick, William Thompson “Kirk” (“The Great Knock”)
Knights, L. C.
Knowles, David
Knox, Ronald
Kolbítars
“Kor: In a City Lost and Dead” (Tolkien)
Kubla Khan (Coleridge)
Ladborough, Richard
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)
Lamb, Charles
Lambert, Jack Walter
Lancashire Fusiliers
Landor, Walter Savage
Landowska, Wanda
Land of Pohja, The (Tolkien)
Lang, Andrew
Langland, William
Lang-Sims, Lois
Larsen, Timothy
Last Battle, The (Lewis)
Last and First Men (Stapledon)
Latimer, Bishop Hugh
Latin; in Catholic liturgy; correspondence of Lewis and Calabria in; discovery of common ancestry of Sanskrit, Greek, and; exams at Oxford in; origins of English words in; in Tolkien’s invented languages
Lavengro (Borrow)
Lawlor, John
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawson, Sr. Penelope
“Lay” (Sayers)
“Lay of the Children of Húrin” (Tolkien)
Lay of Leithian, The (Tolkien)
“Leaf by Niggle” (Tolkien)
Lean, David
Lean, Edward Tangye
“Learning in War-Time” (Lewis)
Leavis, F. R.
Leavis, Q. D. “Queenie”
“Lectures on the History of Philosophy” (Coleridge)
Leeds, University of
Legion Book, The (Minchin)
Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, The (C. Tolken)
Leonardo da Vinci
Letters to a Comrade (Davidman)
Letters from Hell (Thisted)
Letters to Malcolm (Lewis)
Levantine Adventurer (W. Lewis)
Levin, Bernard
Lewis, Albert (father); death of; financial support from; Kirkpatrick and; marriage of Flora and; mental instability of; Mrs. Moore and; sons sent to boarding school by; sons’ visits to; Warnie’s correspondence with; during World War I
Lewis, C. S. “Jack”; academic interest in; Anglo-Catholic affinities of; Anscombe’s critique of; anti-Catholicism of; apologetics of (see also titles of specific books); appearance and dress of; autobiography of (see also Surprised by Joy); on Barfield’s books; birth of; boarding schools attended by; breach with religion of; broadcast talks by; Cambridge University professorship of; charitable trust established by; childhood and adolescence of; Coghill and; conflicted relationship of father and; contribution to Tolkien’s Festschrift by; conversion to Christianity of; on courtly love, see Allegory of Love, The; critical battles of; cultural tastes of; death of; diary of; and English syllabus at Oxford; enters Oxford; essays by; evangelizing by (see also Problem of Pain, The); family background of; fantasy fiction by (see also Chronicles of Narnia); and father’s death; first meeting of Tolkien and; at founding of Inklings; friendship of Greeves and (see also Greeves, Arthur, Lewis’s letters to); godchildren of; “Great War” debates of Barfield and; Griffiths’s friendship with; on The Hobbit; influence on Tolkien’s prose of; Inklings meetings in Magdalene quarters of; intellectual combativeness of; Joy’s relationship with, see Davidman, Joy; Kirkpatrick’s tutelage of; on language; lectures of; life at the Kilns of Warnie and; literary status of; in Martlets; mere Christianity of (see also Mere Christianity); Mrs. Moore’s relationship with, see Moore, Mrs. Janie King; mythology embraced by; on Oxford’s Christian revival; Pitter and; plays by; poetry by; in postwar Inklings core group; Pre-Raphaelite influence on; in proto-Inklings groups; Sayers and; scholarly works; sermons of; sexuality of; in Socratic Club; Space Trilogy by, (see also titles of individual books); students tutored by; succession of philosophical and spiritual beliefs of; Tolkien’s attitude toward; in Tolkien’s fictional account of Inklings; Tolkien’s works admired by; traditional Englishness of; voice of; and Warnie’s drinking; Wee Teas attended by; Williams and; Wilson’s biography of; during World War I; during World War II; see also pseudonyms: Clerk, N. W.; Dimidius; Hamilton, Clive; Whilk, Nat
Lewis, Florence “Flora” Augusta (mother)
Lewis, Joseph (great-grandfather)
Lewis, Richard (grandfather)
Lewis, Richard (great-great-grandfather)
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Warren “Warnie”; alcoholism of; anti-Catholicism of; biography of Jack by; boarding schools attended by; childhood of; Christianity of; death of; diary of; essay in memorial volume for Williams by; French history books by; at Inklings meetings; and Jack’s death; Jack’s letters to; on Jack’s poetry; Joy Davidman and; military career of; Mrs. Moore and; Moorman’s book on Inklings blasted by; Pitter and; visits to father in Belfast; and Williams’s death
Lewis, Wyndham
Library Journal
Liège, University of
Life and Death of Jason, The (Morris)
Lilith (MacDonald)
Lindsay, David
“Lines on the Mermaid Tavern” (Keats)
Lings, Martin
“Linguistic Analysis in Pauline Soteriology” (Lewis)
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis)
Listener, The
Litany of Loreto
Livy
Lohengrin (Wagner)
Loki Bound (Lewis)
London Blitz
London City Council
London Day Training College
London Mercury
London School of Economics
London University
“Lonely Isle, The” (Tolkien)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lönnrot, Elias
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne (Cecil)
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien); audio recordings of excerpts from; cartoon version proposed for; Catholicism in; children and adults as readership of; dedication of; delays in completion of; eucatastrophe in; illustrations for; impact of World Wars on; Inklings’ readings from; language in; Marquette University purchases manuscript of; nomenclature in; prepublication readers of; publication of; reviews of; rewrites of; sales of; spider-monsters in; translations of; unauthorized version of; voted “Book of the Century”; see also Hobbit, The: sequel to
Lord’s Prayer
Lost Road, The (Tolkien)
Louis XIV, king of France
Louis XIV: An Informal Portrait (W. Lewis)
Lovecraft, H. P.
Lovelace Society
Love’s Body (Brown)
Lowes, John Livingston
Lowrie, Walter
Lucretius
Luftwaffe
Lundgren, Marguerite (second wife of Cecil Howard)
Lurgan College
Lutherans
Luttrell Psalter
Lyndsay, David
Mabbott, John
Mabinogion, The
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
MacCarthy, Desmond
MacDonald, George; Christianity of; Lewis’s appreciation of; Tolkien and
MacDowell Colony
Machen, Arthur
Macmillan
MacNeice, Louis
MacRan, Frederick Walker “Cranny”
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalen College, Oxford; Addison’s Walk in; Inklings meetings at Lewis’s rooms at; Lewis commutes between the Kilns and; Lewis’s departure from; Pitter visits; Richards visit; visitors to Lewis at; during World War II
Magic Flute, The (Mozart)
Magician’s Nephew, The (Lewis)
Magnificat
Magus, Simon
Mahood, Molly
Mailer, Norman
Maimonides, Moses
Maintenon, Madame de
Mairet, Philip
“Major Road Ahead” (Tolkien)
Making of English, The (Bradley)
Malory, Thomas
Man and Animal (Poppelbaum)
Man Born to Be King, The (Sayers)
Manchester, University of
Manchester Guardian, The
Manicheanism
Manning, Henry Edward
“Man Who Lived Backwards, The” (Hall)
Many Dimensions (Williams)
Mao Zedong
Mark, St.
Markings (Hammarskjöld)
Marlowe, Christopher
Marquette University
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The (Blake)
Martindale, C. C.
Martlets
Marvell, Andrew
Marvellous Land of Snergs, The (Wyke-Smith)
Marvels of Ant Life (Kirby)
Masefield, John
Masque of the Manuscript, The (Williams)
materialism; Barfield and; eliminative
Mathers, S. L. MacGregor
Mathew, Fr. Gervase, O.P.
Mathews, George Ballard
Maupassant, Guy de
Mauriac, François
Maurice, F. D.
Maxwell, James Clerk
Maynard, Theodore
McCabe, Joseph
McCallum, Ronald B.
McGrath, Alister
McNeil, Janie
McTaggart, J.M.E.
McBride, Sam
Medea (Barfield)
medievalism
“Meditation in a Toolshed” (Lewis)
Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon (W. Lewis)
Mencken, H. L.
Meno (Plato)
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
Meredith, George
Merton College, Oxford
Methodists
“Metrical Meditations of a Cod” (Lewis)
Michiko, crown princess of Japan
Middle Ages
Middle English
Middle English Vocabulary, A (Tolkien)
Middle High German Primer (Wright)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Milford, Humphrey
Milton, John; Christianity of; Lang-Sims’s essay on; Leavis on; Lewis’s boyhood reading of; mythology of; Romanticism of; Williams on
Minchin, James Henry Cotton
Mind and Heart of Love, The (D’Arcy)
Mind of the Maker, The (Sayers)
Miracles (Lewis)
“Misfortunes of Elphin, The” (Peacock)
Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars (Steiner)
Missouri, University of (Columbia)
Mr. Bliss (Tolkien)
Mitchison, Naomi
modernism; defense of Christianity from prejudices of; parodies of; of Vorticists
Modern Language Review
“Moira” (Barfield)
Monde, Le
Monks, Clifford
Monmouth School for Girls
Month, The
Moonstone, The (Collins)
Moore, Edward “Paddy”
Moore, G. E.
Moore, Maureen
Moore, Mrs. Janie King (née Askins); Anglo-Irish priest friend of; death of; declining health of; difficult personality of; Lewis’s brother’s and father’s disapproval of relationship with; Lewis’s diary entries about; and Lewis’s friends; mental illness of brother of; moves with Lewis to the Kilns; Warnie and; World War I pledge between Lewis and son of; during World War II
Moorman, Charles
More, Henry
More, Thomas
Morgan, Fr. Francis Xavier, C.O.
Morrah, Dermot Michael Macgregor
Morris, Jan
Morris, William
Morte d’Arthur, Le (Mallory)
“Mother of Pegasus, The” (Barfield)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muhammad, Prophet
Muir, Edwin
Müller, Max
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot)
Murray, James Augustus Henry
Murray, Fr. Robert, S.J.
Murry, John Middleton
“Music of the Ainur, The” (Tolkien)
Muslims and Islam
Mussolini, Benito
“Mythopoeia” (Tolkien)
mythopoesis; of Lewis; of Tolkien, (see also Silmarillion)
Myths of the Norsemen (Green)
Nabokov, Vladimir
Naffarin
National Book League
Nazis
Neale, John Mason
Neave, Edwin (husband of Jane Neave)
Neave, Jane (née Suffield; Tolkien’s aunt)
Nebridius
Necromancers, The (Benson)
Nemerov, Howard
Nesbit, Edith
Nevbosh
New Book of English Verse
Newby, P. H.
New English Weekly, The
Newman, John Henry
New Shadow, The (Tolkien)
New Statesman
New Statesman and Nation
Newton, Isaac
New York, State University of (SUNY), Stony Brook
New York Herald Tribune
New York Post
New York Times, The; Book Review
Neylan, Mary
Nicene Creed
Nicholson, Norman Cornthwaite
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nightingale, Frank
Nightmare Alley (Gresham)
Night Operation (Barfield)
Nine Tailors, The (Sayers)
“Noises That Weren’t There” (Williams)
Noldorin
“None Other Gods” (Lewis)
Norman, Sylvia
Normans
Norse mythology
North American Review
Northanger Abbey (Austen)
North Wales, University College of
Notion Club Papers, The (Tolkien)
Nott, Kathleen
“Nun’s Priest Tale” (Chaucer)
Observer, The
Occult Significance of Blood (Steiner)
Ockham, William
“Of Beren and Lúthien” (Tolkien)
Officers Training Corps
Of Unsound Mind (Lean)
Ogden, C. K.
O’Hara, Kathleen
Old English/Anglo-Saxon; at Leeds University; Lewis and; after Norman invasion; poetry in, (see also Beowulf); pre-Reformation Catholic texts in; Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship at Oxford of; in Tolkien’s fiction
Old Norse
Old Saxon
“On Being Reviewed by Christians” (Joad)
“On Fairy-Stories” (Tolki
en)
Onions, C. T.
“On Stories” (Lewis)
Operation Pied Piper
Orage, A. R.
Oratory School
Origins of Modern Science, The (Butterfield)
Orpheus (Barfield)
Orthodoxy (Chesterton)
Orwell, George
Osborne, Dorothy
Otto, Rudolf
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)
Outline of History, The (Wells)
Outlines of Romantic Theology (Williams)
Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis)
Owen, W.J.B.
Owen, Wilfred
Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis (Barfield)
“Owen Barfield and the Rebirth of Meaning” (Tennyson)
Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, The
Oxford Book of English Verse, The
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Oxford Esperanto Society
Oxford High School
Oxford History of English Literature (OHEL)
Oxford Magazine, The
Oxford Mail
Oxford Philosophical Society
Oxford Playhouse
Oxford Poetry 1915
Oxford University; Blackfriars Hall; Bodleian Library; Christianity at; Corpus Christi College; English syllabus at; Exeter College; Jesus College; Keble College; Lady Margaret Hall; Lincoln College; Museum; New College; Officers Training Corps; Oriel College; Pembroke College; Queen’s College; Responsions; Roll of Service; St. Hugh’s College; St. John’s College; Somerville College; Trinity College; Wadham College; Worcester College; see also Magdalen College, Oxford; Merton College, Oxford; University College, Oxford
Oxford University Press (OUP)
paganism
Page, Fred
Palmer, Herbert
Palmer, Samuel
pantheism
Pantheon Books
“Papal Aggression” (1850)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Paradiso (Dante)
Paris, Gaston
Pascal, Blaise
Pasley, Rodney Marshall Sabine
Patch, Howard Rollin
Pater Noster
Patmore, Coventry
Paul, St.
Paxford, Fred
Peacock, Thomas
Pearl
Pearson’s Magazine
Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Allott)
Pensées (Pascal)
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Yeats)
Percy, Bishop Thomas
Père Goriot, Le (Balzac)
Perelandra (Lewis)
Perrault, Charles
Personal Heresy, The (Lewis and Tillyard)
Persuasion (Austen)
Phantastes (MacDonald)
Phelps, Robert
Philadelphia Inquirer, The
Phillips, J. B.
Phillips, Justin
philology; Barfield and; comparative; English (see Middle English; Old English/Anglo-Saxon); in English syllabus at Oxford; Germanic, see specific languages; Lewis and; of proto-Inklings; Tolkien and
Philosophical Fragments (Kierkegaard)
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