The Way to Narnia
During the Second World War, thousands of children were evacuated from their homes due to the Nazi air raids on London. Lewis, who lived...
Galadriel and Tolkien's Imagination
The character of Galadriel is an instance of Tolkien’s retroactive imagination at work. Not originally envisaged in his first tales of...
A Composite Personality
With the seven books of the Chronicles , Lewis’s ambition to use literature to produce profound spiritual experience expanded into a...
Meet Matthew and Sarah
Are you desperate to find time to write? And anxious that your writing will be good enough, even when you find time to do any? Â Meet...
From the Ransom Trilogy to Narnia
In the Ransom Trilogy, then, Lewis attempts to produce a particular experience of transcendence in three ways: firstly, using Ransom as a...
The 'Secret Language' of Fiction That We All Know
Some time ago I joined a number of writing groups online. My idea was to get a feel for the kinds of conversations that I thought must be...
The Removal of Irony in 'That Hideous Strength'
Towards the end of That Hideous Strength , as Lewis has Ransom meet with Merlin to outline how the heavenly reality is about to descend...
Nature and Dylan Thomas
Owen Barfield, friend of C. S. Lewis and a philosopher in his own right, was of the view that human consciousness had evolved over time...