The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
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The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life'.
Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez unpacks the Inklings' origins, relationships, and the nature of their collaboration. He shows how they influenced, encouraged, and moulded each other. Duriez also covers the less celebrated Inklings, neglected, he claims, for too long.
What did they owe - and offer - to the more acknowledged names? What brought them together? And what, eventually, drove them apart from their initial focus upon each other's writings?
C S Lewis, J R R Tokien, Charles Williams et al - a fellowship of authors
Contents
Preface 11
Introduction C.S. Lewis and the dinosaurs 15
Chapter 1 Through love and beyond: Charles Williams, the enigmatic Inkling 28
Chapter 2 Roots and shoots: Friends who will become Inklings 46
Chapter 3 The 1920s: Oxford, wistful dreams, and a war with Owen Barfield 65
Chapter 4 J.R.R. Tolkien returns to Oxford and C .S. Lewis meets God 91
Chapter 5 The birth of the Inklings 109
Chapter 6 The 1930s: Writing books they liked to read 132
Chapter 7 The war years and the Golden Age of the Inklings 154
Chapter 8 The close of the Golden Age 172
Chapter 9 The Final Years 192
Chapter 10 A fter the Inklings 210
Chapter 11 Just a Group of Friends? 217
Appendix 1 A n Inklings gallery 230
Appendix 2 A select Inklings chronology 238
Bibliography 252
Notes 260
Index 275
Acknowledgments 288
Product Details
- Title : The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
- Author: Duriez, Colin
- Publisher: Lion Books
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9780745957920