“make it easier for children to accept Christianity when they met it later in life”
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and f…
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culture · British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963) · writer · poet · university teacher · novelist · philosopher · medievalist · autobiographer · literary scholar · theologian · essayist · also C. S. Lewis, Nat Whilk, Clive Hamilton, Clive Lewis, N. W. Clerk, CS Lewis
Born 29 November 1898 · Died 22 November 1963 · Q9204
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2026· 11 entries
“entirely in (his) imagination”
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“Heaven is Oxford lifted and placed in the middle of the County Down.”
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“s comments sound a bit extreme to me. I”
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“And yet, it was not, not now, she that really counted. Or if she counted (and, oh, gloriously she did) it was for another’s sake. The earth and stars and sun, all that was or will be, existed for his sake. And he was coming. The most dreadful, the most beautiful, the only dread and beauty there is, was coming. The pillars on the far side of the pool flushed with his approach. I cast down my eyes.”
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“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”
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“They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.”
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“Their own strength has betrayed them. They have . . . pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.”
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“The strange English accents with which I was surrounded seemed like the voices of demons. But what was worst was the English landscape ... I have made up the quarrel since; but at that moment I conceived a hatred for England which took many years to heal.”
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HOLA: C.S. Lewis, de 'Las crónicas de Narnia': "Nunca se es demasiado viejo para fijarse otra meta o soñar un nuevo sueño" y su significado para la psicología
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The Guardian: The establishment reaction to Andy Burnham’s rise is a sign of the fight to come | Clive Lewis
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: CS Lewis should have tried self-reflection | Brief letters
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The Guardian: ‘This idle prig’: the truth about CS Lewis and John Betjeman’s long-lasting feud
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An original poem was discovered in a collection of documents in Special Collections at the University of Leeds
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2023· 3 entries
America Magazine: C. S. Lewis wasn’t a writer of fantasy. He was a teller of hard truths.
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The Guardian: Tolkien and CS Lewis manuscripts among treasures made available to public in 2023
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Freud's Last Session was released as a film starring Anthony Hopkins as Freud and Matthew Goode as Lewis
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2022· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says C.S. Lewis wrote, “They believed blindly everything they heard or read in the papers. They gave up their freedoms.”” False.
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A passage about souls being led to Hell by their fear of disease was taken from a work by C.S. Lewis.” Incorrect Attribution.
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The Most Reluctant Convert, a biographical drama about Lewis's life and conversion, was released
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2020· 3 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “C.S. Lewis wrote a prophecy foreseeing the coronavirus pandemic” Not C.S. Lewis.
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Snopes rated the claim “Author C. S. Lewis wrote a passage in "The Screwtape Letters" involving Satan wanting to "shut down businesses" and Jesus wanting to restore the family unit.” Incorrect Attribution.
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Douglas revealed that his brother had died at a Swiss mental hospital, and that when David was a young man he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
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2013· 2 entries
On the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis joined some of Britain's greatest writers recognized at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
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On the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey
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2009· 1 entry
A partial draft was discovered of Language and Human Nature, which Lewis had begun co-writing with J
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2008· 1 entry
The Times ranked him eleventh on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
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2007· 1 entry
“Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950–1963”
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1989· 1 entry
And made into the 1993 feature film Shadowlands starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger
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1985· 1 entry
The screenplay Shadowlands by William Nicholson dramatized Lewis's life and relationship with Joy Davidman Gresham
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1977· 1 entry
Though Lewis scholar Kathryn Lindskoog doubts its authenticity
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1970· 1 entry
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”
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1963· 10 entries
Died 1963-11-22.
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Lyon (1963).
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“Jeśli nie potrafimy produkować Lancelotów, to ludzkość dzieli się na dwie części – tych, którzy potrafią radzić sobie z krwią i orężem, lecz nie przejawiają „delikatności w salonie”, oraz tych, którzy są „łagodni i układni na salonie”, ale nieużyteczni w walce. O trzeciej kategorii, brutalnych w czasach pokoju i tchórzliwych w boju, nie ma potrzeby tu wspominać.”
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“A więc on jest groźny? – zapytała Łucja.– Groźny? – powtórzył pan Bóbr. – Nie słyszałaś, co powiedziała moja żona? Oczywiście, że jest groźny. Ale jest dobry. Powiedziałem wam, że on jest Królem.”
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“Poprawnie postawione pytanie brzmi: czy ja wierzę w diabły. Tak, wierzę. To znaczy, wierzę w istnienie aniołów i wierzę, że niektóre z nich przez nadużycie swej wolnej woli stały się wrogami Boga i, w następstwie tego, naszymi wrogami. Anioły te możemy nazywać diabłami.”
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“Opis: wstęp do każdego listu”
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“Opis: refleksja na temat sklasyfikowania książki przez czytelników.”
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“Oremos para que a raça humana jamais escape da Terra para espalhar a sua iniquidade em outros lugares.”
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“The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.”
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“The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Dijon (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
In which Lewis addressed Anscombe's criticism
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1958· 1 entry
Spent his honeymoon there at the Old Inn, Crawfordsburn, which he called "my Irish life"
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1956· 4 entries
Won Carnegie Medal for The Last Battle (1956).
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“For Jack the attraction was at first undoubtedly intellectual. Joy was the only woman whom he had met ... who had a brain which matched his own in suppleness, in width of interest, and in analytical grasp, and above all in humour and a sense of fun.”
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The final novel in the series, The Last Battle, won the Carnegie Medal
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Lewis married the American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45
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1954· 2 entries
Was awarded the newly founded chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, and was elected a fellow of Magdalene College
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Lewis accepted the newly founded chair in Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he finished his career
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1952· 1 entry
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”
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1949· 1 entry
“The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”
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1946· 1 entry
“A Reply to Professor Haldane”
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1940· 1 entry
“You do not love the mind of your race, nor the body. Any kind of creature will please you if only it is begotten by your kind as they now are. It seems to me, Thick One, what you really love is no completed creature but the very seed itself: for that is all that is left.”
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1939· 2 entries
As the Second World War is about to break out
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The Lewises took child evacuees from London and other cities into The Kilns
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1930· 1 entry
Lewis moved into The Kilns with his brother Warnie, Mrs
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1929· 1 entry
Lewis converted to Christianity in 1931, following a long discussion during a late-night walk along Addison's Walk with his close friends Tolkien and Hugo Dyson
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at University College, Oxford (1917–1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Became a philosophy tutor at University College and, in 1925, was elected a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, where he served for 29 years until 1954
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1921· 2 entries
“I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology.”
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Lewis met Yeats twice, since Yeats had moved to Oxford
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1920· 1 entry
A First in Greats (Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1922 and a First in English in 1923
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1918· 1 entry
And Lewis kept his promise
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1917· 1 entry
“the two people who matter most to me in the world”
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1916· 1 entry
Lewis was awarded a scholarship at University College, Oxford
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-11-29.
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