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Mary's note: I hope to add links to a bunch of these books as time permits.

Subject: More Books Lewis read
From: nojunkmail@lunatic.com (Nojunkmail)
Date: 1997/08/04

Here are some more books Lewis read which I culled from William
Griffin's _Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life_ (which itself is a
mixed book, much repeated from other biographies but a lot of personal
touches and some stuff I hadn't already known). Be warned: some of the
books are listed in the bio itself with slightly different titles, so I
am not sure which (if either) is correct.

unknown Beowulf (William Morris translation)
The Edda
Alexander Space, Time, and Deity
Berkeley Principles of Human Knowledge
Browne ?
Bunyan, John (?) Grace Abounding
Mr. Badman
Chesterton, G. K. The Everlasting Man
Orthodoxy
Tremendous Trifles
What's Wrong With the World
Cowley Davideis
Descartes Discourse on Method
Euripides Hippolytus
Gibbon, Edward ?
Hegel ?
Hoare, Dorothy M. The Works of Morris and Yeats
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
Kipling Words of Rudyard Kipling
Langland The Vision of Piers the Plowman (many different titles!
Lydgate, John The Falls of Princes
MacDonald Diary of an Old Soul
Mill, John Stuart ?
Milton, John Comus
Morris, William Collected Works of William Morris
The Defense of Guenevere and Other Poems
Earthly Paradise
The Story of Sigurd and the Fall of the Nibelungs
The Well at the World's End
The Wood Beyond The World
Spinoza Ethics
Stephens, James The Charwoman's Daughter
The Crock of Gold
Deirdre
The Demi-Gods
Here Are Ladies
Irish Fairy Tales
Williams, Charles The Place of the Lion

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ubject: What Lewis read
From: nojunkmail@lunatic.com (Nojunkmail)
Date: 1997/08/11
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Here are the last of the books I culled from William Griffin's _Clive
Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life_. This book definitely grew on me as I read
it; it progresses year by year through Lewis' life and covers time skimmed
over by the other bios I've read, as well as including LOTS of "personal
glimpses." (I bet Lewis wouldn't have liked that, considering his view of
the "personal heresy!") My only concern is that there are some book
errors; one of the books is given with different authors at different
times, others appear with slightly different titles, and I wonder how
many other fact errors there are. However, Lewis' sense of humor comes
through more clearly than anywhere else except some of his poetry. I can
just see him floating down the river "proving" to his friends and Warnie
that the Renaissance never happened! <g>

? Green Pastures
The Imitation of Christ (astringent)
In Memoriam
Iolanthe
Les Liasions Dangereuses
The Man Born to Be King
Modern Painters
Orlando Furioso
The Prelude
These Found the Way
War and Peace
Worlds Apart
Andrewes, Lancelot ? (on prayer)
Apuleius The Golden Ass
Aquinas Summa Theologiae
Arnold, Matthew Sohrab and Rustum (poem)
Aulen Christus Victor ("liked but could make no use of")
Benet, Stephen Vincent ? (poems)
Berdyaev ? ("seemed terribly repetitive")
Betjeman An Oxford University Chest
Blamire(s) The Devil's Hunting Ground
Cold War in Hell
Highway to Heaven
Boucher, Anthony ?
Buber ? ("made the point well")
Cape, Jonathan The Flaming Terrapin
(or Roy Campbell) Flowering Rifle
Chang, H. C. Allegory and Courtesy in Spenser
Clarke, Arthur Expedition to Earth
Davidman, Joy Anya
Letter to a Comrade
Smoke on the Mountain
de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard The Phenomenon of Man
de Sales (?) Introduction to the Devout Life
Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
The Waste Land
Freud Introductory on Psychoanalysis
Frost, Robert ? (poems)
Gaskell, Jane ?
Gilbert & Sullivan The Gondoliers (has Lewis-like character, Don
Alhambra del Bolero)
Gore Philosophy of the Good Life
The Sermon on the Mount
Green, Roger L. Helen of Sparta/Mystery at Mycenae
Griffiths The Golden String
Haggard, Rider She
Harding, D. E. The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth
Homer The Iliad
Hooker, Richard ? (on prayer)
Jeans, James The Mysterious Universe
Jeffers, Robinson ? (poems)
Jewel, John ? (on prayer)
Kierkegaard ? ("means nothing to me")
Law, William Serious Call to a Devout Life (puritanical)
(or Devout and Holy Life)
Lawrence Lady Chatterly's Lover
Lawson, Sr. Penelope God Persists
Windows on Jerusalem
Lewis, Warren The Splendid Century
Loyola (?) Spiritual Exercises
Luther Theologica Germanica
Lydgate Siege of Thebes
MacDonald, George The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and Curdie
Unspoken Sermons
Madaleva, Sr. Lost Language
Malory Morte d'Arthur
Maritain ? (did not admire, verbose)
Masefield Captain Margaret
Masters, Edgar Lee ? (poems)
McKenna, Stephen Confessions of a Well-Meaning Woman
Merton, Thomas No Man Is an Island
Milton Aeropagitica
Newman University Education
Niebuhr ? ("reacted against it")
Nygren Eros and Agape ("a useful classificating instrument")
Orwell, George Animal Farm (Lewis thought it better than 1984)
Otto Das Heilige ("I have been deeply influenced by")
Phillips, J. B. ?
Pitter, Ruth ? (poems)
Plato Republic
Pound, Ezra ? (poems) (unfavorite)
Priestly, J. B. Margin Released
Ptolemy Almagest

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Raine, Kathleen ? (poems)
Robinson, John. A. T. Honest to God (attacked Lewis & others)
Ros, Amanda M'Kittrick Irene Iddesleigh
Sackville-West,Virginia The Eagle and the Dove
Sandhurst, B. G. How Heathen Is Britain?
Sayers, Dorothy Gaudy Night
Inferno (translation)
Mind of the Maker
Spurgeon, Carolyn F. E. Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us
Thomas, Dylan ? (poems) (unfavorite)
Traherne Centuries of Meditations (joyous)
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Vidler, Rev. Alexander Windsor Sermons (denies miracles)
Walsh, Chad C.S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics
Warren, Robert Penn Band of Angels
Williams, Charles The Figure of Arthur
The House By the Stable
The Region of the Summer Stars
Shadows of Ecstasy
Taliesin Through Logres
War in Heaven

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Subject: Another Lewis book list
From: nojunkmail@lunatic.com (Nojunkmail)
Date: 1997/08/12
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I seem to have started a new project here. I finished _Letters to
Malcolm_ and, again, Lewis mentions a number of books that I'll probably
try. Anyone else interested?

unknown Ethical Studies
Lycidas
Barfield, Owen Saving the Appearances
Blake ? (poetry)
Dante Purgatorio
de Sales, Francois ? (meditations)
Fisher ? (sermons)
Haller Rise of Puritanism
Herbert ?
St. John of the Cross ?
Lady Julian ?
Macaulay, Rose Letters
More, Thomas Supplication of Souls
Newman Dream
Pascal ?
Petrarch ?
Plotinus ?
Plato The Republic
Whyte, Alexander Grace Abounding (?)

Sylvia (dot) Steiger (at) lunatic (dot) com (change characters as needed,
I'm posting it this way to keep junk E-mailers from capturing my address).

Sylvia RN BS SFNP NFPP
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Subject: Books Lewis read 2/2
From: nojunkmail@lunatic.com (Nojunkmail)
Date: 1997/07/31
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>>> Continued from previous message
unsure of title or author: books involving the Wild Wood, cave-dwelling
Selenites, Hrothgar's court, Vortigern (maybe an Arthurian history?),
Njal

A question mark does not mean _I_ don't think I know who the author is,
or what books he/she wrote (although it may). It simply means Lewis did
not specify the author or books.

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