Plain to the Inward Eye: Selected Essays on C.S. Lewis

A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death.

C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and about Lewis for four decades. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death, King has put together a collection of his essays and critical reviews organized around four areas. The first deals mainly with what will perhaps be Lewis's longest lasting legacy–his Chronicles of Narnia. The second deals with Lewis's poetry, a neglected area of his work. The third focuses on Lewis and the two women poets with whom he had lasting relationships: ruth Pitter and Joy Davidman. (Lewis and Davidman eventually fell in love and later married, twice.) The fourth offers a critical perspective on the way in which critical interest in Lewis has developed over the last thirty years.

Essays and reviews include:

Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins
The Wardrobe as Christian Metaphor
The Childlike in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis
Making the Poor Best of Dull Things: C. S. Lewis as Poet
C. S. Lewis's The Quest of Bleheris as Poetic Prose
The Poetry of Prose: C. S. Lewis, Ruth Pitter, and Perelandra
Fire and Ice: C. S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter
Review of Shadowlands (film), directed by Richard Attenborough
Review of C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
Review of C. S. Lewis, Collected Letters (3 vols.), by Walter Hooper
Review of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
A Review Essay on Recent Books on C. S. Lewis