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'''Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis''' ([[29 November]], [[1898]] – [[22 November]], [[1963]]), commonly referred to as '''C.S. Lewis''', was an Irish-born English writer and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and fiction. He is best known today for his series ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''.
'''Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis''' ([[29 November]], [[1898]] – [[22 November]], [[1963]]), commonly referred to as '''C.S. Lewis''', was an Irish-born English writer and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and fiction. He is best known today for his series ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''.


Lewis was a close friend of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at [[Oxford University]] and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the [[Inklings]]. According to his memoir ''[[Surprised by Joy]]'', Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.
Lewis was a close friend of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at [[Oxford University]] and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the [[Inklings]]. According to his memoir ''[[Surprised by Joy]]'', Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to [[Christianity]], becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.


Tolkien noted that some of his onomatopoeia influenced names in Lewis' works, including [[Numenor|Numinor]] (''That Hideous Strength''), [[Eldar|Eldil]] (''Out of the Silent Planet'') and [[Tuor|Tur]] and [[Idril|Tinidril]] (''Perelandra'').<ref>{{L|276}}</ref>
==Bibliography, selected==
==Bibliography, selected==
===Books===
===Books===
*[[Space Trilogy]]
*[[1933]]: ''[[The Pilgrim's Regress]]''
*[[The Space Trilogy]]
**[[1938]]: ''Out of the Silent Planet''
**[[1938]]: ''Out of the Silent Planet''
**[[1943]]: ''Perelandra'' (aka Voyage to Venus)
**[[1943]]: ''Perelandra'' (aka Voyage to Venus)
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*[[1955]]: ''Surprised by Joy''
*[[1955]]: ''Surprised by Joy''
*[[1960]]: ''[[The Four Loves]]''
*[[1960]]: ''[[The Four Loves]]''
*[[1962]]: ''[[English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday]]''
**"[[The Anthropological Approach]]"
*[[1966]]: ''C.S.: Letters of C.S. Lewis''
*[[1966]]: ''C.S.: Letters of C.S. Lewis''
*[[1966]]: ''[[Letters to an American Lady]]''
*[[1966]]: ''[[Letters to an American Lady]]''
*[[1969]]: ''[[Selected Literary Essays]]'' (edited by Walter Hooper)
*[[1969]]: ''[[Selected Literary Essays]]'' (edited by Walter Hooper)
*[[1972]]: ''Of This and Other Worlds'' (edited by Walter Hooper)
*[[1972]]: ''[[Of This and Other Worlds]]'' (edited by Walter Hooper)
*[[2000]]: ''The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1''
*[[2000]]: ''[[The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1]]''
*[[2004]]: ''The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2''
*[[2004]]: ''[[The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2]]''
*[[2006]]: ''The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3''
*[[2006]]: ''[[The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963|The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3]]''
*[[2010]]: ''[[Language and Human Nature]]'' (edited by Steven A. Beebe in ''[[SEVEN 27]])
*[[2013]]: ''[[Image and Imagination|Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews]]''
*[[2013]]: ''[[Image and Imagination|Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews]]''


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*[[1955]]: ''Time and Tide'', 22 October 1955, p. 1373.
*[[1955]]: ''Time and Tide'', 22 October 1955, p. 1373.
**"[[The Dethronement of Power]]" [review of ''[[The Two Towers]]'' and ''[[The Return of the King]]'']
**"[[The Dethronement of Power]]" [review of ''[[The Two Towers]]'' and ''[[The Return of the King]]'']
===Unpublished manuscripts===
*"[[Language and Human Nature]]"


==External links==
==External links==
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C.S. Lewis
Biographical information
Born29 November, 1898
Died22 November, 1963
EducationUniversity of Oxford
OccupationAuthor
LocationEngland
WebsiteC.S. Lewis Foundation
"Friendship with the latter marked the breakdown of two old prejudices. At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both."
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis (29 November, 189822 November, 1963), commonly referred to as C.S. Lewis, was an Irish-born English writer and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and fiction. He is best known today for his series The Chronicles of Narnia.

Lewis was a close friend of J.R.R. Tolkien. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

Bibliography, selected

Books

Articles

External links

The Inklings
J.R.R. Tolkien · Owen Barfield · J.A.W. Bennett · Lord David Cecil · Nevill Coghill · James Dundas-Grant · Hugo Dyson · Adam Fox · Colin Hardie · Robert Havard · C.S. Lewis · Warren Lewis · Gervase Mathew · R.B. McCallum · C.E. Stevens · Christopher Tolkien · John Wain · Charles Williams · Charles Leslie Wrenn

References