Plain to the Inward Eye: Selected Essays on C. S. Lewis

A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death. C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and about Lewis for four decades. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death, King has put together a collection of his essays and critical reviews organized around four areas. The first deals mainly with what will perhaps be Lewis’s longest lasting legacy--his Chronicles of Narnia. The second deals with Lewis’s poetry, a neglected area of his work. The third focuses on Lewis and the two women poets with whom he had lasting relationships: Ruth Pitter and Joy Davidman. (Lewis and Davidman eventually fell in love and later married, twice.) The fourth offers a critical perspective on the way in which critical interest in Lewis has developed over the last thirty years. Essays and reviews include: Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins, The Wardrobe as Christian Metaphor, The Childlike in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis, Making the Poor Best of Dull Things: C. S. Lewis as Poet, C. S. Lewis’s The Quest of Bleheris as Poetic Prose, The Poetry of Prose: C. S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra, Fire and Ice: C. S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter, Review of Shadowlands (film), directed by Richard Attenborough, Review of C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper, Review of C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters (3 vols.), by Walter Hooper, Review of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs, and A Review Essay on Recent Books on C. S. Lewis.