Selected Literary Essays

[marycatelli]

Selected Literary Essays by C.S. Lewis

Exactly what it says.  Be forewarned that this is the professional, professor side of his writing.

I didn't much like the opening lecture.  And the meter ones went mostly over my head because I have never been taught to scan poetry. (sigh).

But interesting essays on writers like Bunyan, Shakespeare, Austen, William Morris. Some on language and approaches to literature. Weighing in on an essay by T. S. Eliot -- he disagrees with the relative evaluations of Shelley and Dryden.

Interesting stuff.

Comments

[redxcrosse.livejournal.com]

I have never been taught to scan poetry.

? How did that happen?

It's easy. The hard part is writing it.

[marycatelli]

Because they left all the hard stuff out of the English curriculum.