Image and Imagination and 1934

Posting on Feb. 14, 2019, is almost 2,000 words longer, more information, including about Charlie W. Starr's article on the writing "On Bolshevism" and "Mythonomy." The post of Jan. 1, 2019, is more than a thousand words longer, which is now my standard for updates. It includes a note from 1928, when Charlie Starr states that Lewis wrote the fragment "Mythonomy." It also contains notes from a seven-day trip that Warren took in June 1938 in his boat, the Bosphorus. Also other minor changes. I have to put these notes here, because the Yola software is not working correctly. The post from Dec. 18, 2018, includes, among other things, some notes on T. S. Eliot (from Janice Brown's book), some footnotes on “Fellow Knight,” a couple of additions from Warren's unpublished diary, some minor details, and some information on Cyril Clemens.

Image and Imagination and 1934

Posted by Joel Heck on Friday, December 20, 2013

The latest version of "Chronologically Lewis" contains several additional book reviews of Jack not previously included. They come from Walter Hooper's new book, Image and Imagination, released earlier this year by Cambridge University Press and containing about forty book reviews that C. S. Lewis did. This book corrected a couple of dates, one of them, for example, that was off by exactly one year. In addition, I have continued to read through the diaries of Warren Lewis during March through June, 1934. A lot of new information appears from those months, most of it applying to Warren, but some of it applying to Jack. These were not productive literary years for Jack, at least in terms of writing, since the most productive decade of his writing is especially the 1940s, but a previously unnoticed walking tour with Barfield and Harwood appears and also several other minor incidents in the lives of the Lewis brothers. Mrs. Moore appears in much better form than she does in later years. Maureen is in school at Monmouth, returning to Oxford occasionally on a Friday to go with Warren to a Ladies Musical that features classical music. Automobiles are much more in evidence during these months, with the occupants of the Kilns have two, a Singer and a Morris. During these months Aunt Lily's and Hope Ewart's deaths occur. This file version is about 3,600 words longer than the previous one.

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