Volume 9 Number 1 Article 12 4-15-1982 An Inklings Bibliography (20) 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 (20)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 9 : No. 1 , Article 12. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol9/iss1/12 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 A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings. Additional Keywords George Bolt 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/vol9/iss1/12 MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 37 An Inklings Bibliography (20) compiled by Joe R. Christopher This Bibliography is an annotated checklist covering both being tempted, this may be an allusion to The primary and secondary materials on J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Screwtape Letters; but the reference to Aristotle Lewis, Charles Williams, and the other Inklings. Authors implies a source in that philosophers' works, and readers are encouraged to send off-prints or biblio­ which alternately may be also Lewis's source for graphic references to the compiler: his use of the term. A probably reference to Dr. J. R. Christopher Tolkien's works in this first volume appears in a English Department passage in which a non-magician enters Ware's Tarleton State University workroom with two concentric circles whitewashed Stephenville, Texas 76402 USA on the floor; between the circles were written words, perhaps, "in characters which might have Armstrong, Michael. "Absolutely the Last , 1 T h is i s been Hebrew, Greek, Etruscan or even Elvish for It, No More, The Final Pact with the Devil Story." all Baines could tell" (p. 82). Since there do The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 60:2/ not seem to be many folktales—if any—which 357 (February 1981), 48-56. [Lewis, 50-52, 54,56.] stress an elfin script, let alone an odd one; A series of letters as a writer tries to get a pact- since by 1968 the popularity of The Lord of the with-the-devil story published (most of the editors' Rings was well established; and since Blish uses names are parodies of names in the science-fiction a form with a v, like Tolkien—Elvish. not field: e.g., Roderick Silvercog, editing Nude elfish—this passage is probably influenced by Dementions, for Robert Silverberg, editing New T o lk ie n . Dimensions, ,an anthology series); unless the writer In The Day After Judgment (After is capital­ can get his story published by a certain date, the ized in all appearances, including Blish's devil—with whom he has signed a pact—w ill take his "Afterword", p. 166), there is a direct refer­ soul to Hell (presumably—it is not spelled out). ence to Lewis in the first "Station" (chapter). The devil in this story takes the form of Bezel B. The demon who had said God was dead—Put Bob, running the Screwtape Literary Agency and Satanachia, also called Baphomet, the Sabbath representing the writer on all other sales; obviously Goat—had swallowed one of the humans in Ware's the Screwtape allusion is to some degree appropriate house. After the demon left (with a promise to for a story told in epistulary form. return), there is some discussion of this event; the priest who was originally intended as an B lish, James. Black Easter/The Day After observer comments, "The thing that called itself Judgment. With a New Introduction by David G. Screwtape let slip to Lewis that demons do eat Hartwell. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. x + souls. But one can hardly suppose that that is 166 + 166 pp. (The two books here reprinted the end. I expect we w ill shortly know a lot more about the matter than we wish" (p. 19). are separately paginated.) [ L e w i s , i , 5 , 8 9 , 125; I I , 19, 134, 145; Tolkien, I , 82.1 ("The end” may be an anal pun.) There are two Blish considered this to be the second volume in references in the book to "Our Father Below" his "After Such Knowledge" thematic trilogy, (pp. 134, 145)—the first when Put Satanchia which consisted of Doctor M irabilis (1964), a summons th e m illio n a ir e t o H e ll, "Our F ath er historical novel about Roger Bacon; Black Easter; Below hath need of thee", and later when the man or, Faust Aleph-Null (1968) and The Day After comments on his summoning to the priest as they Judgment (1971), a fantasy novel with a contem- approach H ell's mouth. (The demons by this point porary setting (published as two "novels" but had set up an extrance to Hell, echoing Dante, forming one story); and A Case of Conscience in Death Valley, U.S.A.) Lewis seems to have (1958), a science-fiction novel about an unfallen been the inventor of the phrase "Our Father Below" alien race. so this is indebted to The Screwtape Letters. In Black Easter, a millionaire pays a black But Blish is deliberately blending his sources magician to release a number of demons onto earth together: for example, Satan's speech near the for one night; the situation gets out of control end of the book, despite his being described in and turns into Armageddon, for the old rules do three-headed Dantean terms, is in an imitation of not seem to apply. The reason, a demon tells the Miltonic blank verse. human p r o ta g o n is t a t th e end o f th e n o v e l, i s th a t "God is dead" (p. 165). This book is dedicated to Boase, Roger. The Origin ana Meaning of Courtly the memory of Lewis (p. 5) and it quotes two Love. With a "Foreword" by John Heath-Stubbs. passages from The Screwtape Letters, one being M anchester, England: Manchester U niversity Press, from their introduction, as an epigraph to the 1977. (Distributed in the U.S. by Rowman and fourth section of the novel (p. 125). At one L ittlefield of Totowa, New Jersey.) xii + 171 point, a priest (who has been admitted as an pp. Index. [Lewis, v ii, 1, *4n, 24, «27, 34-38, observer to the house of the evil magician, 4 2 , 5 2 , 58-59nn, 6 l n , 8 6 , 89-92, 113, 120, •153- Theron Ware, who at this point is causing the 154; Mathew, *108, *ll6n, *155; W illiams, »155. death of a man by magic) thinks "that he wap for­ Starred pages not in index.3 bidden, now as. before, even to pray for the soul Boase has investigated the major criticism on Court­ of the victim (or the patient, in Ware's anti- ' ly Love from the Renaissance on. His apnroach is septic Aristotelian terminology)" (p. 89). Since simple: the first chanter is a "Chronological sur­ Lewis had Screwtape use "patient" for the man vey of Courtly Love scholarship" (pp. 5-61) from MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 38 1500 to 1975; the second chapter abstracts "Theories and others who might have led him to qualify some of on the origin of Courtly Love" (pp. 62-99) from the his Ideas (p. 120). survey and discusses them under seven headings; the third chapter abstracts "Theories on the meaning of The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal, No. 20 (August Courtly Love" (pp. 100-116) from the survey and dis­ 1980), 1-12. Edited by Stephen Schofield. cusses them under five headings; a "Conclusion" (pp. Contents: (a) W. R. Fryer, "Disappointment at 117-130) follows, and, after two appendices, "A Cambridge?", pp. 1-5. Fryer, who studied political selected bibliography" (pp. 140-166). Obviously, science under Lewis from 1935 to 1938 (or perhaps Boase Is Interested in the general theories about only part of that time), offers some reminiscences Courtly Love, rather than analyses of Individual of Lewis, with comments on the darker side of Lewis's works; thus, although John Lawlor's Patterns of Love imagination, as in the Head in That Hideous and Courtesy: Essays In memory of C. S. Lewis Is Strength; on Lewis's division from the administrative listed in the bibliography (p. 153), It is not cited officers at Magdalen College, Oxford, and from the in the book. Occasionally Boase misses an essay or general temper at Cambridge; and on his early review which would have helped him. For example, difference in style from most Oxford dons. (b) when he Is summarizing Peter Dronke's theory that Kathryn Lindskoog, "The Gift of Dreams," pp.