Selected Literary Essays

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Summary

This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays.

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Preface Walter Hooper
De Descriptione Temporum
The alliterative metre
What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato
The fifteenth-century Heroic line
Hero and Leander
Variation in Shakespeare and others
Hamlet: the prince or the poem?
Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century
The literary impact of the authorised version
The vision of John Bunyan
Addision
Four-letter words
A note on Jane Austen
Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot
Sir Walter Scott
William Morris
Kipling's world
Bluspels and flalansferes: a semantic nightmare
High and low brows
Metre
Psycho-analysis and literary criticism
The anthropological approach
Index
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