Coleridge, S. T. 37, 145, 155
Companions of the Co-inherence 103–7
Connolly, Cyril 81
Conrad, Joseph 219n.
Crispin, Edmund 208
Crowley, Aleister 81–3
Dante 74, 80, 88, 89n., 99, 104, 107, 123, 159, 179, 187–9, 194–5, 228, 250
Darbishire, Helen 229
d’Arcy, Martin 188, 191
Darwin, Charles 141–2
Davidman, Joy, writes to Lewis 233; childhood and education 234; career and first marriage 234–6; meets Lewis 236–7; marries him 239–40; first illness 239–40; married life 241 ff; last illness 247–8; death 249; Anya 235; Letter to a Comrade 234–5; Smoke on the Mountain 237, 240; Weeping Bay 236
Davie, Donald 230
Dawkins, R. M. 27
de la Mare, Walter 158
Donne, John 40
Douglas, Margaret 173
Dundas-Grant, Jim 208, 229, 256
Dunsany, Lord 234
Dyson, Hugo, summary of life 256; undergraduate days 161; first meeting with Lewis 42; conversation with Lewis and Tolkien 42–5; visits Oxford 54, 56; lecture on Shakespeare 63; river holiday with Lewis and Havard 67–9; at Garsington Manor 97n.; meets Williams 108; dubs Havard ‘Humphrey’ etc. 130; dislike of readings at Inklings 131, 195, 209, 229–30; on holiday with Lewis brothers 211; moves to Oxford 212; dislikes Lord of the Rings 212–13, 225; teaching manner 213; TV and film appearances 213–14; organises dining club with Lewis 217
Dyson, Margaret 212
Eagle and Child, see ‘Bird and Baby’
Eastgate Hotel, Oxford 54, 56, 121
Edda, Elder 25, 56
Edda, Younger 25, 28, 56
Eddison, E. R. 190–1
Eliot, T. S. 12, 21, 48–9, 97–8, 107, 109–10, 118, 143, 145, 148, 153n., 158, 159, 172, 179, 181, 190, 192–3, 197, 218, 246
Eliot, Valerie 246
English Language and Literature, Oxford Honour School of, see Oxford University
Every, George 224
Farrer, Austin 47n., 188, 216, 221
Farrer, Katherine 158
Field, W. O. 34–5
Firor, Warfield M. 209–10
Flecker, James Elroy 158
Fox, Adam, summary of life 256; 67, 131, 157, 163, 185
Fraser, John 27
Gardner, Helen 229–31
Garland, Patrick 214
Garrod, H. W. 229
Gawain, Sir, see Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Gibbings, Robert 68
Golden Dawn, Order of the 81–3
Gordon, E. V. 55
Gordon, George 27
Grahame, Kenneth 158; see also Wind in the Willows
Graves, Robert 161
Green, Henry, see Yorke, Henry
Green, Roger 97n.
Green, Roger Lancelyn 223, 230, 240, 247–8
Greene, Grahame 109
Greeves, Arthur 7, 33, and passim
Gresham, David 235
Gresham, Douglas 235
Gresham, Joy, see Davidman, Joy
Gresham, William Lindsay 235–6
Griffiths, Bede 35, 199
Hadfield, Alice Mary 89n., 197
Haggard, Rider 137, 145, 158, 219
Haldane, J. B. S. 66, 215
Hardie, Colin, summary of life 256–7; 17n., 188, 194, 204, 209, 229
Hardie, Frank 17, 21
Hardy, Thomas 219n.
Havard, R. E., summary of life 257; river trip with Lewis and Dyson 67–9; at Inklings 130 ff, 229–30; war service 177; in Perelandra 183; and passim
Heath-Stubbs, John 225
Hegel, G. W. F. 39, 216
Herbert, George 40
Hollis, Christopher 188
Homer 7, 10, 63, 219n.
Hooper, Walter 251
Hopkins, Gerard 87, 91, 113, 119
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 109, 159
House, Humphry 229
Hunt, Raymond 180, 181, 188
Inklings, The origins 57, 67; joined by Williams 115; Tuesdays at ‘Bird and Baby’ 122, 208–9; Thursdays at Magdalen 127 ff, 225; resemblance to Inner Ring 162–3; founded on friendship 163 ff; celebration of victory 201–2; ‘ham suppers’ 209–10, 212; topics discussed at meetings 226; last Thursday meeting 226
Jenkin, A. K. H. 22, 41
Joad, C. E. M. 215
Johnson, Samuel 40, 145
Jones, David 225
Jones, Phyllis 87–9, 91, and passim as ‘Celia’
Joyce, James 158, 219n.
Jung, C. G. 138
Kavanagh, P. J. 213
Keats, John 90, 142, 214
Kennedy, John F. 251
Keyes, Sidney 225
King Edward’s School, Birmingham 25
King’s Arms, Oxford 185, 200
Kipling, Rudyard 105n., 159
Kirkpatrick, W. T. 6–8, 11, 37, 58, 116, 198
Kolbitar, The, see Coalbiters
Lamb and Flag, Oxford 250, 252
Lamb, Charles 107, 122, 219n.
Lang, Andrew 158
Lang-Sims, Lois 105–6
Lawrence, D. H. 145, 158, 159, 190, 219n., 235, 242
Lawrence, T. E. 161
Lean, Edward Tangye 57, 67
Leavis, F. R. 63–4, 221, 225, 231, 245–6
Lewis, Albert (father of C. S. L.) 3–15 passim, 37, 50
Lewis, C. Day 229
Lewis, C. S., summary of life 257; childhood 3–5; schooldays 5–8; taste for reading in adolescence 4–8; atheism in adolescence 7–8, 13; undergraduate career at Oxford 8, 10–15; army service 8–10; relationship with Mrs Moore begins 8–14, 16; writes poetry 7, 12, 30–1; becomes Fellow of Magdalen 16–23; friendship with Tolkien begins 27–32; walking tours 33–6; ‘Great War’ (debate with Barfield) 37; moves to Kilns 39; ceases to be atheist 39 ff; converted to Christianity 42–52; ‘churchmanship’ 50–2; teaching methods 58–9, 214; writes to Williams and meets him 99–101, 108; at Thursday Inklings 128–52; views on modern literature 157–9; views on male friendship 163–8; wartime broadcasts 183–4; views on post-war society 206–7; ‘Chestertonianism’ 217–8; ‘boyishness’ 218–21; prejudices 221–2; fails to be elected professor at Oxford 228–9; elected professor at Cambridge 230–1; meets Joy Davidman 236–7; work at Cambridge 237; marriage 239–40; illness 215; 246, death 251; The Abolition of Man 221; The Allegory of Love 47, 59, 99, 108, 128, 156, 167, 230, 241; Arthurian Torso 224–5; The Discarded Image 245; Dymer 9–10, 16, 22, 157; (ed.) Essays Presented to Charles Williams 43n., 224; An Experiment in Criticism 245–6; The Four Loves 166, 167, 241; The Great Divorce 194–5, 235; A Grief Observed 249–50; Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer 52n., 250; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 217, 222–4; Miracles 215–7; ‘Narnia, Chronicles of’ 217, 4, 226–8, 232, 237; Out of the Silent Planet 66–7, 128, 153, 182, 198, 220, 223; Oxford History of English Literature 230; Perelandra 164–5, 181–4, 198, 220, 223, 245; The Personal Heresy 59–62; The Pilgrim’s Regress 47–51, 66, 173, 192, 207; A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ 156, 180–2; The Problem of Pain 148, 173–5, 183, 216; Reflections on the Psalms 217; Rehabilitations and other essays 62; The Screwtape Letters 174, 176, 184, 208, 220, 228, 235; Spirits in Bondage 12; Surprised by Joy 10, 52n., 238; That Hideous Strength 157, 165, 198, 220, 221n.; Till We Have Faces 244–5; and passim
Lewis, Joy, see Davidman, Joy
Lewis, W. H. (‘Warnie’), summary of life 257–8; appearance and character 38; childhood and schooldays 3–6; army service 37, 52–3; retirement from army 37–9, 53; keeps diary 38; walking tours with C. S. L. 35, 53; returns to Christianity 52–3; daily routine 53–4; returns to army service in Second World War 67, 130; acts as C. S. L.’s secretary 129; writes French history and biography 194, 243; on holiday with C. S. L., Tolkien and Dyson 210–12; reads The Lord of the rings 227; reactions to C. S. L.’s marriage 242–3; death 252; and passim
Logical Positivism 13, 216
Loki 7
Longfellow, H. W. 4, 28
Ly
ndsay, David 66
McCallum, R. B. 185–6, 258
MacDonald, George 8, 13, 40, 65, 137, 158, 234
McFarlane, Bruce 27
MacKinnon, Donald 186, 208
Magdalen College, Oxford, C. S. L. applies for Fellowship 16; is elected 17; his first impressions of college 17–19; description of his rooms 17, 128–9, 225; conversation in Addison’s Walk 42–4; and passim
Magdalene College, Cambridge 231
Malory, Thomas 8, 13, 32, 40, 108, 219n.
Malvern College 5–6, 161, 198, 209
Martlets, The 14–15
Masefield, John 16, 158, 161
Mathew, Gervase 186, 188, 204, 227, 258
Medcalf, Stephen 213
Meynell, Alice and Wilfrid 80
Milford, Humphrey 75, 86–8, 99, 104, 110, 187, 196–7
Milton, John 16, 40, 59, 74, 90, 102, 118–9, 156, 170–1, 180–2, 187, 189, 219n.
Milward, Peter 247
Mitre Hotel, Oxford 54, 119, 177, 185, 192, 200
Moore, Mrs Janie beginning of relationship with Lewis 8–16 passim; moves to Kilns 37–9; her atheism 53; illogicality of her conversation 166; in Screwtape 174; death 233; and passim
Moore, Maureen 12, 13, 210
Moore, Paddy 8–9, 12
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 97, 148
Morris, William 5, 14, 29, 32, 105, 158, 203
Müller, Max 25, 41–2
Murray, Robert 242
Murry, J. Middleton 118
Nesbit, E. 4
Nicholson, Daniel 116
Nicholson, Norman 224
Onions, C. T. 27, 212
Oxford University Honour School of English Language and Literature 13–14, 24–7, 55–6, 229–30
Oxford University Press 74–5, 78–80, 86 ff, 113–14; and passim
Oyster Club 56
Page, Frederick 78, 80, 87
Parker, H. M. D. 18
Pearl 15, 52
Penelope, Sister 184, 233
Pitter, Ruth 219
Pope, Alexander 213
Potter, Beatrix 4, 219
Pound, Ezra 145, 158, 190
Priestley, J. B. 97
Rackham, Arthur 5
Raleigh, Walter 161, 191
Rice-Oxley, Leonard 56n.
Richards, I. A. 64
Ridler, Anne 82, 109, 117, 178, 181, 184, 196, 225
Robinson, Edward 209
Robinson, John A. T. 176
Robson, W. W. 228
Rohmer, Sax 83, 95, 159
Ros, Amanda 226
Rosicrucianism 80–3
Rowse, A. L. 230
Russell, Bertrand 39
Sampson, Ashley 148, 172–4
Sayer, George 210
Sayers, Dorothy L. 189, 224
Schlesinger, John 214
Scott, Walter 145
Shakespeare, William 25–6, 74, 89–91, 135–6, 196, 213–14
Shapiro, I. A. 230
Shaw, G. B. 142
Shelley, P. B. 98
Shuttleworth, Thelma 104–7, 180, 197
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 25
Sitwell, Edith 158, 196
Smith, David Nichol 56n., 228
Smith, J. A. 17
Socratic Club 214–16, 225
Spalding, Anne 113–14, 189
Spalding, Ruth 113–15
Spenser, Edmund 5, 14, 22, 25, 38, 40, 218, 219n.
Stead, William Force 21
Steiner, Rudolf 36–7, 47n., 81n., 155
Stevens, C. E. (‘Tom’) 205, 258
Stevenson, R. L. 145
Stibbe, Philip 217
Stock, Tom 217
Strong, Thomas 104
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 90
Thomas, Dylan 158
Tillyard, E. M. W. 59–60
Tolkien, Christopher, reads drafts of The Lord of the Rings 65, 205; serves in R.A.F. 127, 185; joins Inklings 205; at Inklings 205, 209–10, 231–2; summary of life 258; and passim
Tolkien, Edith 165n., 168–9, 248
Tolkien, J. R. R., summary of life 258–9; early career 24; first meeting with Lewis 22–3; plans changes in Oxford syllabus 24–7; founds Coalbiters 27–8; friendship with Lewis begins 28–32; shows poetry to Lewis 29–32; gratitude to Lewis for encouragement 32; his married life 32; influence of Owen Barfield 42; ‘long night talk’ with Lewis and Dyson 42–5; belief in ‘truth’ of mythology 43, 138–9; dislikes Lewis’s ‘Ulster Protestantism’ 50–52; Monday meetings with Lewis 54–5; walking tour with Lewis 57–8; literary wager with Lewis 65–6; reactions to Williams 120–6; writes clerihews on Inklings 177, 186–7; on holiday with Lewis brothers 210–11; dislike of ‘Narnia’ 223–4, 228; changing feelings towards Lewis 231–2; reaction to Lewis’s marriage 242; death 252; The Hobbit read by Lewis 57; read to Inklings 67; published 65; The Lord of the Rings read by Lewis 65; read by Williams 123; read to Inklings 135 ff, 195; disliked by Dyson 212–13; Lewis’s hopes for it 160; completed 225–7; ‘On Fairy-Stories’ 43, 63, 224; ‘Errantry’ (poem) 57; ‘Mythopoeia’ (poem) 63; ‘The Lost Road’ 66; and passim
Tolkien, Priscilla 56n., 57n., 182
Trollope, Anthony 129
Trout Inn, Godstow 68, 209, 231
Unwin, Stanley 66, 228
Virgil 199, 219n.
Völsungasaga 25
Waddington, C. H. 222
Wagner, Richard 5, 56, 142
Wain, John, summary of life 259; opinion of Inklings 159–60, 206; hears Williams lecture 187; on death of Williams 199–200; at Inklings 205–6, 208, 210; taught by Lewis 214; at Socratic Club 215; describes Thursday Inklings 225–6; praises Lewis 230
Waite, A. E. 80–3, 109
Waldman, Milton 227
Wallace, Edgar 145
Walsh, Chad 248
Weldon, T. D. (‘Harry’) 18, 162, 198, 204
Wells, H. G. 66, 234
White Horse, Oxford 185
Wilkinson, C. H. 229
Willey, Basil 231, 245
Williams, Charles, summary of life 259; birth and childhood 76–7; education 77–8; works at Oxford University Press 78 ff; marriage 79–80; membership of Order of the Golden Dawn 81–3; lectures at evening classes 73–4; develops ‘Romantic Theology’ 79–80, 104; married life 84–5, 88; writes Masques 87–8; love for ‘Celia’ 88 ff; writes novels 93–7; writes to Lewis and meets him 99–101; his ‘disciples’ 101 ff; ‘Co-inherence’ 103; ‘Substitution’ 104–5; ‘Way of Affirmation’ and ‘Way of Rejection’ 104; ill health and operation 110; moves to Oxford 110–15; joins Inklings 115; Lewis’s criticisms of him 115–16; gives lectures in Oxford 118–19; at Thursday Inklings 148 ff; awarded honorary M.A. 188; gives tutorials 187; plans to return to London 199; death 199–200, 203–4; All Hallows’ Eve 170, 173, 181, 193–5, 199; Arthurian Torso 197, 224–5; ‘The Chaste Wanton’ 91–2; ‘The Death of Good Fortune’ 172; Descent into Hell 98, 107, 110, 192; The Descent of the Dove 106n., 109, 188; The English Poetic Mind 90, 102; ‘The Figure of Arthur’ 197; The Figure of Beatrice 89n., 179, 187–9, 196; The Forgiveness of Sins 153, 172; The Greater Trumps 96–8, 103; He Came Down From Heaven 96, 108–9, 154, 176; ‘The House by the Stable’ 115; Judgement at Chelmsford 107n.; Many Dimensions 95–6, 157; The Masque of the Manuscript 87–8; The Masque of Perusal 89; The Place of the Lion 96–101, 117, 223; Poetry at Present 97, 159; The Region of the Summer Stars 195–6, 224; Rochester 109–10; Seed of Adam 113; Shadows of Ecstasy 93–4, 96, 98, 102, 114, 156; The Silver Stair 80; Taliessin through Logres 107–9, 115, 117, 122–6, 159, 172, 181, 186, 196, 224–5; ‘Terror of Light’ 115; Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury 109; An Urbanity 87, 89; War in Heaven 73, 94–5, 97–8, 157, 159, 218; Witchcraft 172, 193; and passim
Williams, Edith 77, 126n.
Williams, Florence (‘Michal’) 79–80, 84–5, 113–14, 178–80, 193–4; and passim
Williams, Michael 84, 88, 114, 179
Wilson, F. P. 229, 231n.
Wind in the Willows 129, 143, 219
Wodehouse, P. G. 145
Woolf, Virginia 97n., 158
Wordsworth, William 38, 74, 90, 102, 187, 213
Wrenn, Charles 117, 131, 185, 259
Wynyard School 5, 50, 257
Yeats, W. B. 81, 157, 158–9
Yorke, Henry 21
Zohar 82
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