Essays Presented to Charles Williams
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| Essays Presented to Charles Williams | |
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| Editor | C.S. Lewis |
| Contributors | Dorothy Sayers J.R.R. Tolkien C.S. Lewis A.O. Barfield Gervase Mathew W.H. Lewis |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (Amen House, London) |
| Released | 4 December 1947[1] |
| Format | Hardback in dustwrapper |
| Pages | 145 |
Essays Presented to Charles Williams is a collection of six articles by friends of Charles Williams, written to present to him on his leaving Oxford, but published in 1947, to honour his death in 1945.
J.R.R. Tolkien contributed his "On Fairy-Stories" (pp. 38-89) essay, which appeared here in print for the first time.
Contents[edit | edit source]
- C.S. Lewis: Preface
- Dorothy Sayers: "'... And Telling you a Story': A Note on The Divine Comedy"
- J.R.R. Tolkien: "On Fairy-Stories"
- C.S. Lewis: "On Stories"
- A.O. Barfield: "Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction"
- Gervase Mathew: "Marriage and Amour Courtois in Late-Fourteenth-Century England"
- W.H. Lewis: "The Galleys of France"
References
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 326
