English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

by C.S. Lewis

This book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle English to the earlier twentieth century.

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Unknown Binding, 567 pages

Published June 28th 1975 by Oxford Paperbacks/Oxford University Press (first published 1944)

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“Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would have been meaningless. The 'beauties' which they chiefly regarded in every composition were those which we either dislike or simply do not notice. This change of taste makes an invisible wall between us and them.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Dead And Cold, Midas, New Powers, Rich

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century.”

― C.S. Lewis

topics: Literary Criticism

C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.

C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.

Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.

"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.
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