An Inklings Bibliography (19)

Volume 8 Number 4 Article 18 12-15-1982 An Inklings Bibliography (19) Joe R. Christopher Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R. (1982) "An Inklings Bibliography (19)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 8 : No. 4 , Article 18. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol8/iss4/18 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract An annotated checklist covering both primary and secondary materials on J. R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the other Inklings. This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol8/iss4/18 MYTHLORE30: Winter 1982 page 43 AN INKLINGS' BIBLIOGRAPHY (19) Compiled by Joe R. Christopher This Bibliography is an annotated checklist covering both Sayers considered prim ary the dogma in religion and prim ary and secondary m aterials on J. R.R . Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, the work of art (separate from the artist) In litera Charles W illiam s, and the other Inklings. Authors and readers ture. Brabazon quotes two passages from letters are encouraged to send off-prints or bibliographic references to in which W illiams said that they were in danger from the compiler: Dr. J. R. Christopher some of these points, Brabazon considering that W il English Departm ent liam s included his own "danger" as a m atter of cour Tarleton State U niversity tesy (pp. 14-15). "Charles W illiams moderated Stephenville, Texas 76402 USA tSayers'3 irritab ility and her tendency to self-satis faction" (p. 17). Amis, K ingsley (ed.). The New Oxford Book of Light V erse. New York: Oxford U niversity Press, 1978. xxxvi + 347 pp. [ Poems: Campbell, 240; Briggs, K atherine. The Vanishing People: Fairy Lewis, 234; references: Tolkien, 270; W ain, 295; Lore and Legends. New York: Pantheon Books, W illiam s, 270.] 1978. [ ii] + 219 pp. [Tolkien, 74, 185n, Amis’s anthology is hardly the best of the light verse 2 0 5 .] collections, but it is better than W. H. Auden's Briggs quotes from a Somerset folk-song which original Oxford Book of Light Verse in 1938. Besides includes the lines, "Willow do walk / If you travels some odd selections (discussed in various review s), late", and comments, "W illows are supposed to have Amis has not checked thoroughly on the authorship a sinister habit of follow ing a traveller on a dark of some of the "anonymous" verse; for example, "W hile night m uttering. T olkien's Old Man Willow in The T itian was grinding rose madder” (No. 184, v i)—a Fellow ship of the Ring probably had some foundation lim erick—is by C arlyle Ferren M acIntyre. in folk belief" (p. 74). [ The bibliographer wishes By Roy Campbell, Amis rep rin ts his best-known to thank Rose Ann Kincannon for loaning him a copy epigram , "On Some South A frican N ovelists" (No. 183); of this book.] by Lewis, he chooses "Evolutionary Hymn" (No. [ 180] ), perhaps because it is a parody, a form of which Bucknall, Barbara J. Ursula K. Le Gain. New Amis is fond. Several other poems by Lewis are just York: Frederick Ungar Publishing-(Recognitions as w itty, and better than some other selections in Series), 1981. xvi + 175 pp. Index [Lewis, the book. The allusion to John Wain appears in 83-84; Tolkien, ix, 8-9, 13, 36, 38, 60. Only John H eath-Stubbs' "The Poet of Bray" (No. 226)—a four page references to Tolkien are given in parody, like Colin E llis's "The New V icar of Bray" the index; two of the three page references (No. 173), of the anonymous "The V icar of Bray" given for The Lord of the Rings are incorrect.] (No. 22). In H eath-Stubbs' version, the speaker Bucknall offers a good survey of Le G uin's fantasy follow s various poetic movements to remain critic ally and science fiction w ithin the context of the acceptable: in the third stanza, he joins the Recognitions series on detective fiction and science Movement, and then the fourth stanza begins, "But fiction , which seems to call for some plot summaries. seeing that even John Wax m ight wane / I le ft that She points to the use of Taoism, to Le G uin's one-way street, sir ". The allusion to Tolkien and emphasis on heterosexual love, and to the theme of W illiam s comes in the seventh quatrain of Auden's psychic wholeness. O rsinian Tales and M alafrena "On the C ircuit" (No. 203); it has been previously receive only passing m ention, being neither fantasy noted in these checklists. nor science fiction (one story in Orsinian Tales may be fantasy, but Bucknall does not mention it) . Bucknall in her "Foreword", speaks of her love Brabazon, James. "Dorothy L. Sayers, M usketeer for T olkien's works, which led her to Le G uin's (p. Extraordinary”. In Proceedings of the 1979 Semi ix ). Le G uin's adm iration for Tolkien is mentioned nar, pp. 2-17. Witham, Essex: The Dorothy L. (p. 8), and her possible learning of the balancing Sayers H istorical and L iterary Society, 1979. of tension and release in a fiction from him is 38 pp. [W llliam s, 9-11, 14-15, 17—th is includes suggested (p. 60). Her style and story telling two brief passages from W illiam s' le tte rs'to ability are compared to Tolkien's (p. 13). The S a y e r s , 1 4 -1 5 .] other comparisons are clarifying, not causal. The Brabazon uses Sayers' playing at Dumas' The Three use of dreams in Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven is K&skateers In the period before she went off to compared to th at of the island where dreams come school as a summary of her character: (1) The Three true in Lewis1s The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" M usketeers1 "corniness, its lack of contact with (pp. 83-84). real life"; (2) "its bellicosity, Its vision of life as a m atter of flashing blades and resounding oaths, and blood sp ilt w ith a careless laugh"; (3) "Its C arter, Lin (ed.). Flashing Swords! No. 5: Demons courage, its nobility of purpose and its high stan and Daggers. New York: D ell Publishing Co., dards of honour" (p. 15). While developing th is, 1981. Hardcover available through The Science- Brabazon speaks of Sayers' The Zeal of Thy House as Book Club (Garden C ity, New York: Nelson Doubleday, follow ing T. S. E lio t's M urder-in the Cathedral 1981) . v iii + 184 pp. [Tolkien, 131.] and W illiam s' Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury at Can In the introduction to Craig Shaw Gardner's "A terbury Cathedral: Brabazon finds It lacking the Dealing w ith Demons," C arter praises the w izards in genius of E liot and W illiam s, using a florid verse "Sword and Sorcery" stories as being more interesting style typical of her Dumas rom anticism , but crafted than the heroes: "Think of M erlyn in The Once and w ith a better theatrical technique than either E liot Future King, Dr. Vandermast in Eddison's M istress of or W illiams showed (p. 9). Brabazon sees her third M istresses, M eliboe the Enchanter in Fletcher P ratt's religious stage play, The Just Vengeance, as direct The W elf~of the Unicorn, or Gandalf him self in The ly under the influence of W illiam s: "the imagery of Lord of the Rings and you w ill see what I mean." the play is borrowed from Dante and Charles W illiam s. Presumably this means that Carter finds Gandalf more . The very language of the play Is wholly Wil interesting than Frodo (or perhaps ju st than Aragom, liam s; the rhythms are his; the assonances are his; if C arter does not think of Frodo as acting the the very words that she uses are often of his coinage" traditional hero's role). ( p . 1 1 ) . Brabazon credits one major change In Sayers' per sonality to W illiam s: a curbing of her tendency Carter, MCargaretl Llouisel. "The Practice of a toward religious bellicosity. He finds three differ Presence." In Daymares from the Crypt, p. 13. ences between them: W illiam s argued to discover Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies. w hile Sayers argued to win; W illiams rejoiced In [v] + 13 + [ 2] pp. coinherence w hile Sayers disliked the Idea of self- The poem is said in the introduction to try "to sacrifice and others sacrificing them selves for her; express a C hristian understanding of the value of W illiam s valued the individual experience while fantasy" [p.

Load more