Selected literary essays

C. S. Lewis

earliest edition we have, 1969 Cambridge U.P., 1969 330 pages

This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The literary impact of the authorised version' to 'Psycho-analysis and literary criticism', from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the...

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Selected Literary Essays edition · 2013 · Cambridge University Press · 352 pages · 9781107685383
Selected literary essays paperback · 1969 · Cambridge University Press · 329 pages · 9780521296809
Selected literary essays edition · 1969 · Cambridge U.P. · 330 pages

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