C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, British
| Author: | John Bremer | ISBN: | 9780739171530 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | May 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Bremer |
| ISBN: | 9780739171530 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | May 31, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
This book presents a realistic and unromantic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in ‘Spirits in Bondage’ and its surrounding events. It calls for a re-appraisal of Lewis himself, not as a ‘soldier-poet’ but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using others—his father, his university, his mistress—to further his own ends. It throws into stark relief his later conversion.
This book presents a realistic and unromantic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in ‘Spirits in Bondage’ and its surrounding events. It calls for a re-appraisal of Lewis himself, not as a ‘soldier-poet’ but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using others—his father, his university, his mistress—to further his own ends. It throws into stark relief his later conversion.
