tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post1481103499798814140..comments2024-03-05T14:28:49.011-05:00Comments on Tolkien and Fantasy: Five Notes on C.S. Lewis Douglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-30518078127817279082015-01-01T17:35:14.931-05:002015-01-01T17:35:14.931-05:00Further UPDATE on the Empson remark
I'm grat...Further UPDATE on the Empson remark <br /><br />I'm grateful to Richard West for pointing out to me Paul Tankard's short article "William Empson on C.S. Lewis's Reading and Memory" in Notes and Queries, v. 61 issue 4 (December 2014): pp. 614-616, which covers much of the same ground. Tankard comes to the conclusion that "Empson's alleged testimony should no longer Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-5598886168762664882014-11-12T18:01:26.713-05:002014-11-12T18:01:26.713-05:00UPDATE on the Empson remark
Since the remark by W...UPDATE on the Empson remark<br /><br />Since the remark by William Empson on C.S. Lewis first appeared in James Como's introduction to his C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table (1979), from which it was quoted (without attribution) in A.N. Wilson's C.S. Lewis: A Biography (1990), I asked James Como if, after thirty-five years, he might remember its source. I thank him for his reply, and with Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-60783947984380233302014-11-11T16:00:24.388-05:002014-11-11T16:00:24.388-05:00Thanks, Paul. I'll try to have a look at the ...Thanks, Paul. I'll try to have a look at the George Watson book again. I remember I had difficulty accessing a copy a dozen or so years ago, and my notes indicate that I saw it at Indiana University, back when I used to be free to make research day-trips. The review "Love and the Middle Ages" came from The Spectator (Sept. 1936), so it might be easier to find the original. Thanks Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-67616502561928687882014-11-11T13:14:34.692-05:002014-11-11T13:14:34.692-05:00On the slim chance that you may not have come acro...On the slim chance that you may not have come across the book, I will point out that there are three articles by William Empson in Critical Essays on C.S. Lewis, edited by George Watson, Scolar Press, 1992.<br /><br />The three articles are:<br />1. "Love and the Middle Ages", a review of The Allegory of Love.<br />2. "Milton's God" (an excerpt from Empson's book, I Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01820693345227688071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-29739603241330906602014-10-09T15:37:52.939-04:002014-10-09T15:37:52.939-04:00Thanks, Josh. You're right that this is an ear...Thanks, Josh. You're right that this is an earlier source for the statement (it appears on p. xxiii, in James T. Como's Introduction, of the 1979 edition), but again this is second hand. Como's comment is almost word-for-word what Wilson quotes (Wilson adds the word "and" before the word "one"---which isn't in Como's original), so Como is probably the Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983947031591926293.post-4795511708240153082014-10-07T02:54:50.941-04:002014-10-07T02:54:50.941-04:00"Can anyone supply an earlier source?"
..."Can anyone supply an earlier source?"<br /><br />The book is _C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table_ (1979). I don't have the page number because my Lewis books are packed right now, but you can view it via Google Books in the revised edition: http://books.google.com/books?id=sfU63cdwmfEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Remembering+C.S.+Lewis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Josh Longhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16263319818981426710noreply@blogger.com