Virgil
Virgin Mary
Vision, A (Yeats)
Vision of Judgment, The (Byron)
Vita Nuova, La (Dante)
“Voices of the Laity” (Lewis)
Völsunga saga
Voltaire
Völuspá
Vorticists
Voyage to Arcturus, A (Lindsay)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Lewis)
“Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star, The” (Tolkien)
Wagner, Richard
Wain, John; fantasy disliked by; on Lewis’s writing; on Socratic Club; undergraduate studies at Oxford of; on Williams
Waite, Arthur Edward
Waldman, Milton
Waley, Arthur
Wallace, Lewis
Walsh, Chad
Walsh, Eva
Ward, Maisie
Ward, Michael
Wardale, Edith Elizabeth
War in Heaven (Williams)
War of the Worlds, The (Wells)
Water, Wind, and Sand (Tolkien)
Watson, George
Watson, Josephine Grant
Watts, Alan
Waugh, Evelyn
Waverly Novels (Scott)
Way and Its Power, The (Waley)
“Way’s the Way, The” (Lewis, Baker, and Pasley)
Webb, C.C.J.
Weeping Bay (Davidman)
“Weight of Glory, The” (Lewis)
Welch, James W.
Weldon, T. D. “Harry”
Wells, H. G.
Well at the World’s End, The (Morris)
Welsh
Welsh mythology
Wesley, Charles and John
West, Dame Rebecca
Westcott, William Wynn
Westminster Abbey Poets’ Corner
“What Christians Believe” (Lewis)
What Coleridge Thought (Barfield)
What Is the Kingdom of Heaven? (Clutton-Brock)
Wheaton College
“When I’m Dead Don’t Bury Me at All, Just Pickle My Bones in Alcohol” (Gordon)
Whilk, Nat (Lewis pseudonym)
Whitby Abbey
White, T. H.
Whitefield, George
Whitehead, Alfred North
Why Are We in Vietnam? (Mailer)
Wiblin, Vida Mary “Smudge”
Wickedness (Tolkien)
Wilberforce, Samuel
Wilde, Oscar
Willey, Basil
William Collins, Sons
William of Sens
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby; academic interest in; birth of; childhood and adolescence of; Christianity of; death of; in Fellowship of the Rosy Cross; fiction by; identification with Dante of; Joy Davidman’s lecture on; lectures by; Lewis’s friendship with; marriage of; memorial book of essays in honor of; at Oxford University Press; physical appearance of; plays by; poetry of; Tolkien’s friendship with; women and; during World War II
Williams, Edith (Charles’s sister)
Williams, Florence (née Conway; Charles’s wife)
Williams, Mary (Charles’s mother)
Williams, Michael (Charles’s son)
Williams, Phyllis
Williams, Richard Walter Stansby (Charles’s father)
Williamson, Henry
Wilson, A. N.
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Frank Percy
Wilson, P. W.
Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame)
Wiseman, Christopher
Wiseman, Nicholas
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolff, Mary Madeleva
“Won’t Mankind Outgrow Christianity in the Face of the Advance of Science and of Modern Ideologies” (Havard)
“Wood That Time Forgot, The” (Green)
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
Working Men’s College
World-Economy (Steiner)
Worlds Apart (Barfield)
World’s Last Night, The (Lewis)
World War I; aftermath of; Armistice; Barfield in; Coghill in; English poets of; Lewis in; outbreak of; Tolkien in
World War II; anxiety over events leading to; Barfield during; British intelligence during; Churchill’s speeches during; end in Europe of; Lewis’s BBC broadcasts during; life at the Kilns during; Operation Pied Piper evacuation of London in; outbreak of; Oxford University during; Tolkien’s sons in; Williams during; see also London Blitz
Worm Ouroboros, The (Eddison)
Wren, C. L.
Wrenn, Agnes
Wrenn, Charles Leslie
Wright, Elizabeth
Wright, Joseph
Wuthering Heights (Brontë)
Wyclif, John
Wyke-Smith, Edward A.
Wynyard School
Xhosa
Yalta Conference
Year’s Work in English Studies 1920–1921, The
Yeats, William Butler
Yorke, Henry, see Green, Henry
Yorkshire Poetry
Yu, Antony C.
Zarathustra
Zeal of Thy House, The (Sayers)
Zettersten, Arne
Zulu
J.R.R. Tolkien (© Douglas R. Gilbert)
Owen Barfield (Used by permission of the Owen Barfield Literary Estate, Owen A. Barfield, trustee)
C. S. Lewis (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Charles Williams (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
J.R.R. Tolkien at age fifteen with the King Edward’s School cadets (Courtesy of the Governors of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham, by the kindness of John Garth and Alison Wheatley, who have confirmed the identity of Tolkien in this 1907 photograph)
Tolkien, 1911 (Private collection / Bridgeman Images)
Tolkien and H.V.D. (“Hugo”) Dyson, from a 1954 photograph of the Fellows of Merton College (From the Inklings collection of Harry Lee Poe)
Tolkien and his wife, Edith, at 76 Sandfield Road, Oxford, 1961 (© Pamela Chandler / ArenaPal / The Image Works)
Lewis family portrait, ca. 1899: (left to right) Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis (mother) holding Warren Lewis, Albert Lewis (father), Richard Lewis II (grandfather), Martha Lewis (grandmother), Eileen Lewis (cousin), Agnes Lewis (aunt) holding C. S. Lewis (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Father and son: formal portrait of Albert Lewis and C. S. Lewis, ca. 1918 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
C. S. Lewis (left) and Warnie on holiday at Annagassan, County Louth, Ireland, ca. 1952 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
C. S. Lewis at the Royal Air Force Chaplains’ School, 1944 (RAF Chaplaincy Branch Archive, RAF Museum, Hendon, London)
Lewis and the Moores on holiday at St. Agnes Cove, Cornwall, September 1927: (left to right) Maureen Moore, the family dog Baron Papworth, C. S. Lewis, Mrs. Janie Moore (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Lewis and his wife, Joy, with their dog Susie, photographed by Michael Peto, 1958 (© University of Dundee, The Peto Collection)
Charles Williams, ca. 1910, formal portrait (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Florence Conway in 1908 (before her marriage to Charles Williams) in Tudor costume (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Williams (left) with William Butler Yeats, 1917 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Williams in the snow, heading down the long driveway from the Oxford University Press offices at Southfield House, ca. 1940–43 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Owen Barfield, ca. 1915, as a Highgate schoolboy playing chess (Used by permission of the Owen Barfield Literary
Estate, Owen A. Barfield, trustee)
Owen Barfield, “C.S.L.: Biographia Theologica,” handwritten in Greek, ca. 1941–46, with note by Barfield, dated August 1969: “I don’t think I showed it to him…” (Used by permission of the Owen Barfield Literary Estate, Owen A. Barfield, trustee)
Owen Barfield, ca. 1920–25, probably at Oxford (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Barfield and his wife, Maud, with the family cat in front of their home in Surrey, ca. 1969 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Barfield in his study, early 1980s (Used by permission of the Owen Barfield Literary Estate, Owen A. Barfield, trustee)
Magdalen College panorama with a view toward the New Building and Addison’s Walk (by Oliver Woodford [CC-BY-SA-2.0], from Wikimedia Commons)
The Eagle and Child (“Bird and Baby”) pub, 49 St. Giles, Oxford (© Martin Macgregor)
A walking tour, Wales, ca. 1935, photograph presumably taken by Owen Barfield: (left to right) Alfred Cecil Harwood (“Lord of the Walks,” according to Lewis), C. S. Lewis, Walter O. (“Wof”) Field (Anthroposophist and close friend of Harwood and Barfield), W. Eric Beckett (Fellow of All Souls, friend of Barfield and Harwood, later knighted for his service as legal adviser to the Foreign Office), Arthur Alan Hanbury-Sparrow (friend of Barfield, author of the World War I memoir The Land-locked Lake, and an Anthroposophist) (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Inklings at the Trout Inn (near the Godstow Bridge in Wolvercote, north of Oxford), ca. 1947: (left to right) Commander James Dundas-Grant, Colin Hardie, Dr. Robert E. Havard, C. S. Lewis, Peter Havard (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
(Alan) Bede Griffiths, 1926 (Used by permission of Kathryn Spink, courtesy of Adrian Rance-McGregor)
Dorothy L. Sayers, studio portrait, ca. 1926 (Used by permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL)
Sr Penelope Lawson, CSMV (Courtesy of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage, Oxfordshire)
Lord David Cecil and Rachel MacCarthy on their wedding day, at St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London, October 13, 1932 (© TopFoto / The Image Works)
Nevill Coghill with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at Merton College on October 14, 1967, eve of the premier of the Oxford University Drama Society production of Doctor Faustus (© TopFoto / The Image Works)
Gervase Mathew, O.P. (© Douglas R. Gilbert)
John Barrington Wain, October 1958 (© Mark Gerson / National Portrait Gallery, London)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue: Dabblers in Ink
1. “A Star Shines on the Hour of Our Meeting”
2. Heaven in a Biscuit Tin
3. Advent Lyrics
4. Hard Knocks and Dreaming Spires
5. “Words Have a Soul”
6. A Mythology for England
7. Wanted: An Intelligible Absolute
8. A Meeting of Minds
9. Inklings Assemble
10. Romantic Theology
11. Secondary Worlds
12. War, Again
13. Mere Christians
14. Loss and Gain
15. Miracles
16. “Making Up Is a Very Mysterious Thing”
17. The Long-Expected Sequel
18. The Dialectic of Desire
19. Inklings First and Last
Epilogue: The Recovered Image
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustrations
A Note About the Authors
Also by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
Permissions Acknowledgments
Copyright
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Owen Barfield: Excerpts from the introduction to Romanticism Comes of Age; excerpt from “Moira” from Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis, edited by G. B. Tennyson. Both reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Excerpt from “Air Castles” from Punch (February 14, 1917); excerpts from “C.S.L.: Biographica Theologica”; Owen Barfield Papers, Marion E. Wade Center OB/MS-6. English translation by John Zaleski. Excerpt from a letter (July 6, 1951), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1055. Excerpt from a letter (December 29, 1957), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1055. Excerpt from “Origin of U.S. Connection” (August 30, 1963), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1054. Excerpts from a letter to Philip Mairet (March 28, 1964), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1074. Excerpt from a letter to Professor Colburn (February 16, 1963), Owen Barfield Archives, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1054. Excerpt from a letter to R. J. Reilly (April 17, 1969), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1056. Excerpt from a letter to Craig Miller (March 28, 1964), Owen Barfield Papers, Bodleian Special Collections, Dep. C1074. Excerpt from “Information for My Literary Executors” (April 1985), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1255. Excerpts from an interview with Walter Hooper (July 15, 2006). All reprinted with the permission of the Owen Barfield Estate.
Owen Barfield and C. S. Lewis: Excerpts from “Poema de XVI Animalibus arcem Noam intrantibus” (January 1929), Owen Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1104, folio 3. In Latin, with English translation by Carol Zaleski. Excerpt from “Abecedarium Philosophicum” from The Oxford Magazine 52 (November 30, 1933): 298. Extracts by C. S. Lewis copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Both reprinted with the permission of the Owen Barfield Estate and C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd.
John Betjeman: Excerpt from “A Hike on the Downs” from Continual Dew: A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, copyright 1937 by John Betjeman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Hodder Headline, plc.
Simon Blaxland–de Lange: Excerpts from Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age, a Biography, copyright © 2006 by Simon Blaxland–de Lange. Reprinted with the permission of Temple Lodge Publishing Ltd.
David Cecil: Excerpts from a letter to Ruth Pitter, from Don W. King, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, copyright © 2008 by the Kent State University Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publishers.
Neville Coghill: Excerpt from “The Approach to English” from Light on C. S. Lewis, edited by Jocelyn Gibb, copyright © 1965 by Geoffrey Bles Ltd., renewed
© 1993 by Elizabeth Gibb. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Joy Davidman: Excerpts from Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, edited by Don W. King, copyright © 2009. Reprinted with the permission of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Walter de la Mare: Excerpts from letters to Owen Barfield (June 14, 1950, and November 16, 1949), Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. C1055. Used by permission of the Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their representative.
Roger Lancelyn Green: Excerpt from diary, from Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, Fully Revised and Expanded Edition, copyright © 1974 by Roger Lancelyn Green, as Executor of the Estate of Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper, copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Scirard Lancelyn Green, the C. S. Lewis Co., Ltd., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Alice Mary Hadfield: Excerpts from Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work, copyright © 1983 by Alice Mary Hadfield. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Ltd., www.oup.com.
Albert Lewis: Excerpts from letters to C. S. Lewis and Warren Lewis, and diary entries, from “The Lewis Family Papers or Memoirs of the Lewis Family (1850–1930).” Unpublished typescript edited by Warren Hamilton Lewis in 11 volumes, 1933–1935. © C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. All reprinted with the permission of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Il., and the C. S. Lewis Co., Ltd.
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