Joy odi et biography examples

THE WRITINGS OF JOY DAVIDMAN LEWIS ()

by Paul Leopold

A two-part paper read to the New York C. S. Lewis Society in ; published in The Bulletin of the New York C. S.

Lewis Society, February

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Part I

I was a child of Glome and the pupil of the Fox; I saw that for years my life had been lived in two halves, never fitted together.

–– Till We Have Faces

C.S.

Lewis’s wife has left us a volume of poetry; several scattered poems and verse translations; two novels; a short religious book; divers essays, prefaces, book and film reviews, short stories, etc. Probably few now read any of this who are not C.S.

Lewis fans.

Joy odi et biography examples pdf

Those of us who go to her writings do so because we are (naturally enough) curious about her personality. I trust that doesn’t doom us among those listed to the “personal heresy”; a man’s motive for picking up a book need not, after all, limit what he gets out of it.

But in any case, since our in