The Fellowship: The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00YSX0KKA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 329 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Meetings Of Great Minds John D. Cofield During the 1930s and 1940s a small group of intellectuals at Oxford University held twice weekly gatherings to unwind, chat, discuss the news of the day, and most importantly to hear, read, and criticize each other's writings. Never formally organized, without bylaws and officers, the men (no women were allowed to attend) sparked debate and discussions among themselves that were to have long lasting and ongoing consequences. Detailed, comprehensive yet accessible history of the famous Inklings I am not a scholar and thus am not qualified to write a detailed, referenced and coherent review of this work. So here are some notes from the viewpoint of the completely hobbit obsessed fantasy fan.First off, though the book is quite extensive, fully sourced and covers a lot of ground in more or less chronological order, it is also quite readable for someone that has not spent their whole life in the ivory towers of academ. Oh, to have been in the Oxford of the Inklings! Greg Cook Superb portrait of four seminal writer-thinkers, their milieu, their lives and works. Philip and Carol Zaleski have done a great service by writing this exhaustively researched book. It is analogous to that wonderful portrait of four American Catholic writers, The Life You Save May be Your Own, by Paul Elie. In the Zaleski's book, C.S. Lewis comes across as a dominant figure, but he is surrounded by, sometimes matched by, a
C. R. R. This extraordinary group biography also focuses on Charles Williams, strange acolyte of Romantic love, and Owen Barfield, an esoteric philosopher who became, for a time, Saul Bellow's guru. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. Lewis maps the medieval mind, accepts Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub.