‘And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.’
* * *
* Donald Ibrahim Swann (1923–94) was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and soon afterwards began a career as a musician. Besides writing music, he was a gifted singer and accompanist of his own songs. Some of his most popular work was done in collaboration with David Marsh and Michael Flanders who wrote the lyrics to his music. Besides an opera of Perelandra, Swann collaborated with J.R.R. Tolkien on The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle, Music by Donald Swann, Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien (1967).
* Sir John Badenoch (1920–96), who was knighted in 1984, was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Medicine. He was Resident Assistant, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford, 1949–56; University Lecturer in Medicine, 1956–85; Director of Clinical Studies, Oxford, 1954–65; and a consultant physician with the Oxfordshire Health Authority, 1956–85.
* The Rev. Canon Ronald Edwin Head (1919–91) was born in London, the son of Alfred and Beatrice Head. He received his BD from King’s College, London in 1949. From there he went on to take a B.Litt. from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1959. His thesis was later published as Royal Supremacy and the Trials of Bishops 1558–1725 (1962). He was ordained in 1950 and served as a curate of St Peter’s, Vauxhall, 1949–52. He was appointed curate of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, in 1952, and he was vicar from 1956 until his retirement in 1990. One of the things Lewis liked most about him was that, while firmly within the Catholic tradition of the Church, he abided by the twin pillars of scripture and tradition. He is buried beside his parents in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, not many yards from the grave of C.S. Lewis.
* The Rt Rev. John Arthur Thomas Robinson (1919–83) was born into a clerical family in Canterbury. He was educated at Marlborough College, and Jesus College, Cambridge. Following his ordination he was Chaplain to Wells Theological College, 1948–51, and afterwards Fellow and Dean of Clare College, Cambridge, 1951–9. In 1959 he was made Bishop of Woolwich, and his interest in the ordination of women, inter-communion and other matters soon caused him to be recognized as the leading radical of the Church of England. Life was never the same for him after he published Honest to God (1963). He was inundated with letters, visitors and speaking engagements. Other popular books followed, but his magnum opus, The Redating of the New Testament (1976), was a serious work of orthodox scholarship.
* The University of Oxford lists a number of special lectures of which the Romanes Lecture is the oldest and the most famous. It was founded in 1891 by George John Romanes of Christ Church, and it is given once a year on some subject, approved by the Vice-Chancellor, relating to science, art or literature.
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Abercrombie, Lascelles Mary and the Bramble, 82n; Sale of St Thomas, 82n; men. 82, 146, 182
Abortion 297
Acland Nursing Home (Oxford) 304, 330–1, 398, 413, 420, 427, 428–9
Acropolis, The 397
Acts of the Apostles 54
Adam 69, 129, 136, 189, 198, 199, 313
Adams, Fr Walter 235–6
Addison, Joseph 78
Addison’s Walk 78n, 114, 122, 156, 201
Adonis 116
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, 26
Aesop 322
Agrippa, H. Cornelius De Occulta Philosophia, 391
Alden, Lewis (‘Octie’) 11–12
Aldiss, Brian 123–4
Aldwinckle, Elia Estelle ‘Stella’ 271–7
Alexander, Samuel Space, Time and Deity, 99–100, 221
Alfred, King 63, 350
Algebra xxi, 30, 36
Allah 333
Allegory 127–8, 131, 132, 135, 137–9, 282, 323, 347, 358–9
Allen, Arthur Clement 12, 16
Allen, Edward 367
All Souls College (Oxford) 71, 86n
Amis, Kingsley 123–4
Anderson, Edward 17
Anglican (and Church of England) xvii, xviii, 24n, 82n, 132–3, 154n, 160, 166, 173, 220–1, 222, 227–8, 240, 253, 262–4, 283, 291–2, 293, 295, 337, 354n, 374–5, 376–7, 381–2, 383, 387–9, 417, 421–2, 423–6
Anglo-Saxon (Old English) 62n, 63, 64, 65, 66n, 79, 81, 87, 89, 92, 123, 147, 157, 164, 406
Anscombe, G.E.M. An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, 289n; Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind, 289n, 290–1
(with P. Geach) Three Philosophers, 289n; men. 289–90
Anselm, St 253
Anstey, F. In Brief Authority, 371
Only Toys!, 307
Vice Versa, 8, 364; men. 150
Anthroposophical Society, The 29n
Anthroposophy 29n, 59n, 85–6
Antichrist 324
Antioch 49
Apollo 394, 397
Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica, 28
Apostles, The 189–90
Applegarth School 420, 429
Apuleius The Golden Ass, 351; men. 211
Arbuthnot, John 162
Argonauts 322
Arius 254
Ariosto, Ludovico Orlando Furioso, 152, 186, 211, 212, 370, 371, 417
Aristotle 26, 85, 125, 142, 161, 410
Army Service Corps (later Royal Army Service Corps) 23, 87
Armour, Margaret (trans.) Richard Wagner 14, 20
Arnold, Edwin Lester Lepidus the Centurion, 209, 210
Arnold, Matthew Sohrab and Rustum, 12; men. 65n, 91, 142
Arras, Battle of 42–3
Artemis 73
Arthur, King 3, 26, 209
Arthurian Cycle 3, 48, 207, 322, 325
Artzbasheff, Boris 293
Arvieux, Laurent, Chevalier d’ 412, 414
Ashton Court (Bristol) 46, 47
Askins, Dr John Hawkins (‘the Doc’) 70
Askins, Mary Emmet Goldsborough 70n
Askins, Peony 70n
Askins, Rev. William James 233
A Square Flatland, 368
Assisi 306
Athanasius, St The Incarnation of the Word of God, 113–4, 247; men. 351
Athens 392, 393, 394
Atlantis 8, 86, 209, 210
Atonement, The 244, 253
Auden, W.H. 84, 178, 260, 293, 373–4
Augustine of Hippo, St City of God, 184
Confessions, 130; men. 142, 190, 200, 254
Austen, Jane 159, 350, 364
Avoca House Hotel (London) 338, 348–9
Ayres, Sergeant 42
Babbage, D.W. 369
Babylon 322
Bacchus 50, 116, 322
Badenoch, Sir John 413, 414–15, 429
Bailey, Cyril 50
Bailley, D.M. 285–6
Bailey, George ‘In the University’, 124
Baker, Eileen Brookes 59n
Baker, Leo Kingsley 59–60, 73
Baker Street Irregulars 371
Balaam 269
Balder 6, 14, 15, 116
Balliol College (Oxford) 24n, 50n, 74n, 75, 76n, 81n, 154n, 160n, 167n, 177
Baltimore 176
Barbour, Brian ‘Lewis and Cambridge,’ 345, 361
Barnes, Bishop Ernest William Rise of Christianity, 175n, 289; men. 175
Barfield, Lucy 306
Barfield, Maud 29n, 77
Barfield, Owen ‘Foreword’ to All My Road Before Me, 56–7
History in English Words, 29n
Owen Barfield on C.S.Lewis, 29n
Poetic Diction, 29n
Saving the Appearances, 29n
Worlds Apart, 29n
men. 29, 59–60, 62, 71, 77, 87, 91, 101, 105, 108, 110, 112, 120, 122, 126–7, 127, 130, 136, 158, 159, 161, 171, 233–4, 237, 261, 280, 284–5, 375, 417, 419
Barkway, Bishop James Lumsden 286
Barrie, J.M. Mary Rose, 356
Peter Pan, 10
Barth, Karl 267
Battle Abbey xx
Baudelaire, Charles 31
Baum, Vicki Grand Hotel, 220
Baxter, Mrs E.L. 297, 303
Baxter, Richard Church-history of the Government of Bishops, 246–7, 267
Saints’ Everlasting Rest, 246; Bayley, Peter 367
Baynes, Pauline 309, 312–13
BBC 105, 162n, 174, 240–2, 245–50, 252–9, 264–6, 297, 419
BBC Archive Centre 248
Beacon, The 72, 126
Becker, Wilhelm Charicles, 13
Beeching, H.C. 238
Beethoven, Ludwig van 219
Belfast xviii–xxii, 1, 38, 41, 47, 77, 86n, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 118, 177, 209, 331, 337
Beloit College 294–5
Belloc, Hilaire 48, 65
‘Belsen’ see Wynyard School Benecke, Paul Victor Mendelssohn 153, 155, 156
Benedictines, The 351
Bennett, Henry Stanley English Book and Readers 1475–1557, 369
men. 341, 343, 369
Bennett, Joan 369
Bennett, John Arthur Walter Humane Medievalist, 173n
men. 58n, 173, 291, 341n
Benson, Frank 16
Beowulf 28, 123
Berkeley, George 100
Bernardus Sylvestris De Mundi Universitate, 184–5
Bertram, Fr Jerome 281
Betjeman, (Sir) John A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 79n
Ghastly Good Taste, 79n
Old Lights for New Chancels, 79n
men. 79, 86–7, 151
Biaggini, E.G. The Reading and Writing of English, 277
Bible, The 120, 141, 148, 205m, 323, 325, 409, 422
Bide, Rev. Peter William 378–9, 381
Bird and Baby see Eagle and Child
Blackfriars (Oxford) 167
Blackfriars 131–2
Blackie’s Christmas Annual 321
Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone, 77
Blake, Leonard 235, 292
Bleiben, Rev. Thomas Eric 216, 227
Bles, Geoffrey 218n, 219–20, 236, 237, 282, 310, 311–12, 355
Blunden, Edmund Charles 146
Bob Jones University 295
Bodleian Library 50, 64n, 90, 92n, 135, 160n, 173, 174, 176n, 224–5
Boehme, Jacob Signatura Rerum, 104
Bois de Pacaut 43
Bolshevists see Communism
Bookman, The 14
Book of Common Prayer 234–5, 390, 417, 424
Books and Bookmen 358
Borron, Helie de Tristan, 28
Boswell, James Life of Samuel Johnson, 26, 51, men. 87
Bottomley, Gordon ‘Babel,’ 205
King Lear’s Wife, 152n
Poems in Thirty Years, 152n
men. 152, 183
Bournemouth 83
Bower, J. Dykes 389
Boxen characters 83
Boy’s Own Paper 9
Bradbury, Ray 211
Bradley, Andrew Cecil The Masque of Balliol, 86
Shakespearean Tragedy, 138
Bradley, Francis Herbert 100
Brady, Charles A. 187
Brasenose College (Oxford) 74n, 78, 139n
Brett-Smith, Herbert Francis 66
Brewer, Derek Stanley Chaucer and his World, 148n
Chaucer in his Time, 148n
A New Introduction to Chaucer, 148n
men. 148–51, 290
Bridges, Robert 48, 159
Brightman, Frank Edward The English Rite, 154n
men. 154
British Academy, The 157, 340, 344, 347, 431
British Cemetery (Pargny) 46n
British Council of Churches 379n
British Expeditionary Force 126–7, 175, 226–7
British Interplanetary Society 204, 210–11
British Library 407
British Museum 64, 363, 407–8
Bristol 38, 39, 40, 52 Broadsheet (Cambridge) 408–9
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 53
Browne, Sir Thomas 148
Bryson, John Norman 75–6, 90, 182
Buckle, H.T. History of Civilization in England, 25
Buddha 31
Buddha of Kamakura 112
‘Bultitude, Mr’ 115
Bultmann, Rudolf 423
Bunyan, John Grace Abounding, 93
Pilgrim’s Progress, 127–8, 323, 332
men. 131
Burke, Edmund 178
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley 78
Burnet, J.F. 369
Burns, Howard 409
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 186, 310
Burton, Robert Anatomy of Melancholy, 26
Butcher, S.H. (with Andrew Lang) Odyssey, 371
Butler, Samuel The Way of All Flesh, 59n
Brynhild 21
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 83
C.S.Lewis Foundation 96n
Caesar, Julius De Bello Gallico, 7
Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall The White Prophet, 9
Calais 175
Calvin, John 369
Camoëns, Luis de Lusiads, 152
Campbell, John Edward 36
Campbell, Roy Flaming Terrapin, 170
Flowering Rifle, 170
men. 84, 170–1, 174
Camberwell House Asylum 11n
Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union 365
Cambridge Review, The 365–6
Cambridge University Library 196
Campbell, J.E. 34
Campbell College (Belfast) 11–12, 61n, 209n
Capron, Ellen Barnes 8n
Capron, Eva 8n
Capron, John Wynyard 8n, 10
Capron, Norah 8n
Capron, Rev. Robert (‘Oldie’) 8–10, 11
Captain, The 9
Carew, Richard 61n
Carlingford Mountains (Co. Louth) 391
Carmel College 418
Carpenter, Bishop Harry 376–7, 379, 381
Carpenter, Humphrey The Inklings, 62n, 376n
J.R.R.Tolkien A Biography, 62n
men. 376–7
Carpenter, Urith Monica 376n
Carrickfergus (Co. Down) 86n, 87
Carritt, Edgar Frederick Philosophies of Beauty, 52n
Theory of Beauty, 52n
men. 52, 60, 71–2, 73, 99
Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 307, 323, 326
Through the Looking-Glass, 323
men. 3, 155
Casa Buoni Fanciulli (Verona) 294
Catholic Church (and Catholicism) xx, 62n, 119, 127n, 132–3, 166, 167, 173, 200, 222, 246, 247, 253, 262–5, 280–1, 289n, 290, 292–4, 295, 374, 376, 382, 383, 397, 424–6
Causality 74, 290
Cecil, Lord David Stricken Deer, 164n
men. 163–4, 176, 178, 339
Centenary Press (London) 218n, 219–20
Centenary Stone, C.S.Lewis (Magdalen College) 78n
Cervantes, Miguel de Don Quixote, 351, 371
Chancellor’s English Essay Prize 57, 71
Chambers, R.W. 136, 138
Chamisso, Adelbert von 30
Chase, Rt. Rev. G.A. A Companion to the Revised Psalter, 389, 402
men. 389, 418
Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales, 62n
Troilus and Criseyde, 62n, 63, 78, 104, 138
men. 28, 64, 147, 150, 350
Chavasse, Rev. Claude 132
Cherbourg School 12–14, 24, 40–1, 45
Cherbourg School Magazine 16
Chesterton, G.K. The Everlasting Man, 100, 252
Orthodoxy, 126
men. 65, 289
Chesterton Review, The 362<
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China 112, 120
Christ Church (Oxford) 29, 74n, 155, 403n, 431n
Christian Unity 294
Christina Dreams 59, 60, 85
Christ’s Hospital 391n
Church, Richard 160
Churchill, Winston 226, 266–7
Churchill Hospital 377, 392
Church Missionary Society 240n
Church of England see Anglican
Church of England Newspaper 286–7
Church of Ireland 38
Church Quarterly 236
Cinema 81
Clare College (Cambridge) 421n
Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood’s End, 211
men. 204, 210–11
Clarke, Dr Robert 44n
Classical Honour Moderations 24n, 50, 53, 55, 57, 62n, 63, 69, 71, 86n
Clement XI, Pope 307n
Clergy Review 255
Clifton College 37
Coggan, Most Rev. F.D. 389
Coghill, Nevill ‘Approach to English,’ 65–6, 158, 385
Canterbury Tales (trans.) 62n
Troilus and Criseyde (trans.), 62n
men. 62, 65–6, 71, 73, 81, 83, 120, 136, 163, 165, 178, 182, 345, 411
Coldstream Guards 75n
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 7
Columbia University 334n
Commission to Revise the Psalter 364, 389–90, 392, 412, 418, 419
Communism 113, 334n, 356
Community of St Mary the Virgin 187n, 243
Como, James T. (ed) C.S.Lewis at the Breakfast Table, 180, 276n
Congreve, William 158
Constable, John ‘C.S.Lewis From Magdalen to Magdalene,’ 341–5
Contraception 279, 297
Cork (Ireland) xvii, xviii
Cork Steamship Company xvii
Corneille, Pierre 368
Corpus Christi College (Oxford) 66n, 81n
Costello, Dr G.P. 292–3
Courtly Love 91, 135, 347
Covent Garden 127
Coverdale, Miles 389
Coward, Noël Cavalcade, 134
Cowie, Miss 12
Cowper, William 79
Craig, Col. James 41
Craigie, Sir William Alexander Scandinavian Folk-Lore; Specimens of Icelandic Rímur, 66n
men. 66
Crete 392, 395
Crimean War xix
Crispin, Edmund Swan Song, 163, 193
men. 193
Criterion, The 82, 125
Croce, Benedetto 125
CSL The Bulletin of the New York C.S.Lewis Society, 261, 270
Cupid 321, 351–9
Curtis Brown, Spencer 405–6
Cyclops 322
Daily Mail 377, 378
Daily Mirror 256
Daily Telegraph, The 74n
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