Tag Archives: The Allegory of Love

Five Words We Should Banish from our Vocabulary, Or Preventing Verbicide with C.S. Lewis

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

As a voracious reader and great lover of language, C.S. Lewis was concerned about “verbicide,” what he called the “murder of words.” As Lewis describes in Studies in Words (7-8), verbicide happens in a number of ways: Inflation of a Word’s Value: “Inflation is … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughtful Essays | Tagged allegory, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Harry Potter, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, neologism, post-truth, Studies in Words, The Allegory of Love, The Handmaid's Tale, truthers, Ursula K. Le Guin, verbicide | 39 Comments

John Lawlor on C.S. Lewis’ “The Allegory of Love”

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

The Allegory of Love … is a work which has all the authority of a mind of the highest quality marking out clear paths in a complex and absorbing mass of material. As such it effortlessly joins company with that … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged C.S. Lewis, John Lawlor, literary criticism, literary history, medieval literature, Memories and Reflections, Shakespeare, The Allegory of Love, W.P. Ker | 5 Comments

Introducing Why Read Lewis with William O’Flaherty (Friday Feature)

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

William O’Flaherty is introducing a new occasional podcast series designed to encourage you to read books that C.S. Lewis wrote (or edited). Even those who have read a variety of works by him are surprised to learn he wrote more … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Friday | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Crystal Hurd, Dymer, Jerry Root, Michael Ward, Sorina Higgins, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The Allegory of Love, The Discarded Image, The Great Divorce, The Last Battle, Till We Have Faces, William O'Flaherty | Leave a comment

George Watson’s Provocative Comments on C.S. Lewis as Literary Critic

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the advantages of finding new libraries is that the librarian’s skill of book-buying is more art than science. The librarians I know, despite their adept use of analytics, have as much curator or architect in them as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis, Douglas Adams, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, F.R. Leavis, g k chesterton, George Watson, Inklings, Jacques Derrida, Joy Davidman, librarians, literary criticism, myth, Narnia, Postmodernism, Reader Response Criticism, Reading, Roland Barthes, Samuel Johnson, Sherlock Holmes, Socratic Club, Studies in Words, The Allegory of Love, The Discarded Image, The Personal Heresy, Till We Have Faces, William Empson | 14 Comments

How Screwtape was Introduced to the World

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Next week we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the book that made C.S. Lewis a household name: The Screwtape Letters. It was first serialized in The Guardian, a relatively minor Anglican weekly. Screwtape joins Charles Dickens‘ Bleak House, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Stephen King‘s The Green Mile … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Original Research | Tagged Dune, Frank Herbert, Out of the Silent Planet, Science Fiction, Screwtape, Stephen King, The Allegory of Love, The Guardian, The Personal Heresy, The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters | 37 Comments

On Reading The Faerie Queene for the First Time

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

The Faerie Queene fits in the category of important books so big that they often stay in our “to read” pile for years on end. I still haven’t read Ulysses by Joyce, which is only as long as a Stephen … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged Arthuriana, books, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, fantasy, IT, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Queen Elizabeth, Reading, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Stephen King, The Allegory of Love, The Faerie Queene | 13 Comments

Two Different Prefaces to C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I am certain that within long I will be accused of being obsessed with Prefaces. I have posted great prefaces to C.S. Lewis’ The Allegory of Love and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, and I have even published the … Continue reading →