Volume 21 Number 1 Article 9

Summer 7-15-1995

An Inklings Bibliography (55)

Joe R. Christopher

Wayne G. Hammond

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Abstract Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.

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Authors and readers are encouraged to send copies "Supplement for 1987-1990 till En Tolkienbibliogra.fi" by and bibliographic references on: J.R.R. Tolkien — Ake Bertenstam, pp. 204-404. In Swedish and English. Wayne G. Hammond, 30 Talcott Road, Fully half of this number of Arda is occupied with Berten- Williamstown, MA 01267; C.S. Lewis and Charles stam's latest supplement to his indispensable bibliog­ Williams — Dr. J.R.Christopher,EnglishDepart- raphy of works by and about Tolkien, covering the years ment,Tarleton StateUniversity,Stephenville,TX 76402. 1987-1990, with additions and corrections for earlier years. He has made changes to the way certain kinds of entries Arda 1988-1991. Ed. Beregond, Anders Stenstrom. Upsala: are presented, and both editorial and typographical Arda-sallskapet, 1994.xviii + 404 pp. [Tolkien] changes to im prove clarity. The size of the present supple­ ment—which Bertenstam notes could have been larger, The latest number of the journal Arda, covering four but Arda was already very full and already delayed—at­ years, contains: tests both to the ever-expanding body of Tolkien studies "Beowulf— A Work of Art" by Andreas Haarder, pp. and to additional printed and electronic sources of infor­ 1-22. With a summary in Danish. The essay, a chapter mation now available to the bibliographer. [WGH] reprinted from Haarder's 1975 dissertation, Beowulf: The Day, David. Tolkien's Ring. Appeal o f a Poem, discusses Tolkien's British Academy lec­ Illustrated by Alan Lee. ture, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," which London: HarperCollins, 1994.183 pp. + 12 color plates. "marks the beginning of a new age in Beowulf criticism" (p. Day attempts to discuss Tolkien's 'sources of inspira­ 6). Haarder also touches briefly on the affinity between tion for his epic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings," Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings. following on the path (ancient now in the history of "Skonhet och fara och sorg [Beauty and Peril and Sor­ Tolkien studies, and potentially misleading) of Lin Car­ row]: en tankevav hos Tolkien" by Beregond, Anders ter's 1969 Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings”. In Stenstrom, pp. 24-51. With a summary in English. Day's investigation, "the symbol of the Ring is of primary importance. Through understanding its meaning and sig­ "Tolkien's Conception of Evil: An Anthropological nificance, we can begin to understand how Tolkien's The Perspective" by Chris Seeman, pp. 52-70. With a summary Lord of the Rings is the result of an ancient story-telling in Swedish. tradition that dates back to the dawn of Western culture' "Mordor: Empire of Evil or Decline of a Model?" by (p. 11). He begins, in chapter 1 ("Tolkien's M ind"), with a Sebastien Ferenczi, pp. 72-79. With a summary in Swedish. superficial statement on Tolkien's debts to myth and leg­ end, and his desire to "make a body of more or less "The Hero Stereotype and Its M odifications in The Lord connected legend" which he could dedicate to Eng­ of the Rings" by Jadwiga Wegrodzka, pp. 80-91. With a land—of course this was not The Lord o f the Rings, but "The summary in Swedish. Silmarillion" broadly considered. "The Clerkes Compleinte Yet Again: A Note on The criticism of superficiality is deserved by the rest of Maystryes" by Nils-Lennart Johannesson, pp. 92-95. With Day's book as well. In his examination of rings as symbols a summary in Swedish. Johannesson disputes T.A. Ship- and as used for divination and magic, he looks at Norse pey's view on maystres as a probable error for maystryes in mythology, especially the myth of Odin's ring; at the Tolkien's Chaucer pastiche "The Clerkes Compleinte" Volsunga Saga-, at Arthurian and Carolingian legends; at (Arda 1986). Celtic, Saxon, Greek, Roman, biblical, and Oriental myths; "The Years' Work in Tolkien Studies," pp. 96-198. A at alchemy; and, at excessive length, at the Nibelungenlied. chronicle and report, primarily in Swedish, of Tolkien-re­ That work figures in two of Day's chapters, and in yet lated events in 1988-1991, by Beregond, Anders Stenstrom, another chapter he discusses and summarizes Wagner's Morlug, Mattias Wahlen, and Gilrandir Sjofararen; and related Ring cycle of operas. reviews in English and Swedish, with abstracts in Swedish Day's final chapter concerns how The Lord of the Rings and English, of numerous books by and about Tolkien, is seen by its readers, especially the image of the Ring as a including vols. 6-9 of The History of Middle-earth (reviewed nuclear bomb—a relationship which Tolkien denied in his by Douglas A. Anderson) and several essay collections. foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings. These are followed by Swedish and English summaries of Despite Day's stated concentration on that work, refer­ letters to Arda. ences to The Silmarillion abound in his book—necessarily pAC^e 62 Issue 79 J0UCDCDeR 1995 m a o n n o s e so, and which demonstrate that one cannot easily divorce pictures between 186 and 187 is a standard one of Williams.] The Lord o f the Rings from the larger context of Tolkien's Heath-Stubbs' autobiography does tell the story of his mythology. life and does say a few things about his poetry— mainly Alan Lee's illustrations are partly in black and white and the process of getting it published. But it is mainly an partly in color. Some illustrate Tolkien's works. [WGH] anecdotal account of the people he has known. The fifth Fulweiler, Howard W. "The Other Missing Link: chapter, "Queen's College, Oxford" (58-85), describes his experiences in Oxford during World War II; most of his Owen Barfield and the Scientific Imagination." references to the Inklings occur because they were lectur­ Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 46:1 (Fall 1993): 39-54. ing there then. Fulweiler is essentially summing up Barfield's ideas on Of the male lecturers in English, the most prominent evolution, with its intellectual background, in order to were Coghill, Professor David Nichol Smith and C. S. make it known to more readers; this is not a critique of Lewis. There was also Lord David Cecil, but he tended Barfield. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant essay. The first part, to lecture on Victorian subjects which most of us did not have to study. (62) with its discussion of western mankind's alienation from nature, follows mainly Saving the Appearances. In the mid­ Heath-Stubbs attended Lewis's lectures "A Prolegomena dle of the essay appears a short dialogue, with a speech to Mediaeval Literature" and, as a postgraduate student, each by a Darwinian, a Creationist, and Barfield, with "his seminars on textual criticism" (62-63). The few com­ Barfield pointing out how both of the others are picturing ments about Lewis which Heath-Stubbs makes seem gen­ nature as a machine. The end of the essay turns to the last erally correct although one might quibble; moreover, he chapter of Saving the Appearances with its hopes for a "final errs in saying Till We Have Faces was written after Joy participation" of human beings in nature. [JRC] Davidman's death (63), he probably overstates the influ­ ence of George MacDonald on The Lion, the Witch and the Garlands of Fantasy: Garland, Linda and Roger. Wardrobe (63), he is wrong in saying Lewis ar­ The Art of Linda & Roger Garland. T ext by ranged for Charles Williams to receive an hon­ N igel Suckling. Limpsfield, Surrey: Paper Tiger, orary M.A. from Oxford—although that has 1994. 128 pp. [Tolkien [1], [2], [5], 6, 36, [55J-56, been several times printed (64)— and, later, 82-105,110-11] he picks up incorrect information, from a Roger Garland's brightly-colored paint­ biography of Roy Campbell, that Lewis was ings based on Tolkien's works are well- told by Campbell of his marital problems known, if not acclaimed universally among (162). Heath-Stubbs includes one anecdote Tolkien fans. This book details his methods from Lewis's medieval lectures about Le­ and philosophy of art together with those of his wis's discussion of realist (63). Heath-Stubbs wife, a talented artist in her own right. Both Gar­ says he never met Lewis "personally" (63). lands have been influenced by Celtic design, New Age The comments on Tolkien are mainly passing refer­ philosophy, astrology, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Symbol­ ences to the popularity of his fiction (10), his essay "Be­ ists, and Dungeons & Dragons as well as by Tolkien. It is owulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (61)—Heath-Stubbs here revealed that Roger's Tolkien illustrations were vet­ is defending the study of Anglo-Saxon in the pas­ ted by Christopher Tolkien. [WGH] sage— and Tolkien's dislike of allegory (63). Gilson, Christopher. "The Entu, Ensi, Enta Declen­ Cecil is only mentioned in the above passage and once sion: A Preliminary Analysis." Vinyar Tengwar 36 (July later as one of the editors of The New Book o f English Verse 1994): 7-29. (108). Coghill is more significant. In the Oxford discussion, he is mentioned as knowing the contemporary poetry and Gilson's essay concerns a manuscript by Tolkien of an once quoting a poem by Charles Madge in a lecture (62); Elvish declensional paradigm. This manuscript fragment, held in the Marquette University Archives, is on the verso Heath-Stubbs attended Coghill's course on Piers Plowman and saw four of the plays Coghill directed in Oxford (63), of a leaf of manuscript for the Lord o f the Rings chapter "The including T. S. Eliot's fragmentary Tower of Kirith Ungol," and was written between 1924 Sweeney Agonistes (172); and 1948. It is reproduced in facsimile on the upper cover he mentions Coghill as setting a topic, and acting as judge, of Vinyar Tengwar and transcribed on p. 8. In his essay for a poetic competition for the student Apollo Society at Gilson analyzes the declension in minute detail. [WGH] Oxford—Heath-Stubbs was not a competitor (77); the final reference is to Coghill reading Chaucer in the Middle Heath-Stubbs, John. Hindsights: An Autobiography. English pronunciation at a poetry festival organized by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [vi] + 308. [Cecil 61,108; John Wain in 1962 in London (258-59). Coghill 60, 62-63, 7[4] (incorrectly given as 73 in the index), 77 Wain was only an acquaintance of Heath-Stubbs at 172,259; Lewis 61-64,82,162,184,190,209; Tolkien 10,61,63-64; Oxford (240), and is not tied to the Inklings (mentioned on Wain 84, 240, 258-59, 280; Williams 54, 64-65, 87, 96-99,106-09, 64 but not in the index), in Heath-Stubbs' accounts. When 113, 117, 125, 148, 167, 169, 171-73, 190, 258, 297. One of the Wain and his wife Eirian are first mentioned, it is in ( D a c H n o s e is s u e 79 ^ jSucocraeR 1995 pAJohn Howe's map of Middle-earth is poster-sized (when novel in Williams' tradition which Heath-Stubbs tried to unfolded) and in full color. It incorporates pictures of write (117), some background on the publisher of The Edoras, the Shire countryside, Rivendell (?), Minas Tirith Region o f Summer Stars (125), the information that Dylan with Gandalf riding Shadowfax, Gollum, Gandalf again, Thomas attended some of Williams's lectures at the City Barad-dur with Nazgul, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Eomer Literary Institute and the suggestion that one of Thomas's (?), and ores. In spirit if not in style, it is like the earliest of poems, "The Conversation of Prayers," "seems to show the Tolkien poster-maps issued by Ballantine Books in the the influence of Williams's doctrine of substitution" (148), 1960s, long on decoration but short on cartography. It is some information about Patrick McLaughlin, founder of said to be based on Christopher Tolkien's original 1954 map St. Anne's Society in London, which society W illiams and of Middle-earth, but Howe also owes a stylistic debt to others addressed (167), the report that Williams first read Pauline Baynes' superior poster-map of 1970. Dante in "the old Temple Classics edition" (169), the men­ tion of a revival of Williams' play Seed of Adam at St. Bound together with the map is a booklet ([23] pp.), The Thomas's Church under the promotion of Patrick Road Goes Ever On and On: About the Map o f Middle-earth by paxse 64 Issue 79 jSuCDOOeR 1995 (D a u n n o K G Brian Sibley. The essay summarizes the geography of Mid­ and page references and a revised and expanded "Note on dle-earth, with reference to The Hobbit and The Lord o f the the Text" by Douglas A. Anderson. The family trees of Rings, and includes a glossary of 'Important Places in Mid­ Appendix C also have been reset, and the maps have been dle-earth'. Appended to the essay is a brief note 'About redrawn. The new versions of the latter, by Stephen Raw, Making Maps of Middle-earth', concerning the cartographi­ closely follow those by Christopher Tollden for earlier cal workofJ.R.R. and ChristopherTolkien. [WGH] editions of The Lord of the Rings, but are drawn so as to be clearer in reduced sizes. Indeed, they are more readable, Lewis, C. S. Poems. Ed. Walter Hooper. London: Fount though with more polish they have less charm. Paperbacks-HarperCollinsPufcZis/ters, 1994, xxi + 263 pp. Anderson notes (p. xiii) that "for this 'best possible' A collection of Lewis's short poems, reprinting the 1964 version, the text of The Lord o f the Rings is being entered Poems and the 1919 Spirits in Bondage, and printing seven­ into computers, which should allow for a greater uniform­ teen verses in a section titled "A Miscellany of Additional ity of text in future editions___ This new edition makes a Poems." Walter Hooper has an introduction to this new significant stride tow ards. . . perfection, as well as achiev­ collection, saying incorrectly that this brings together "all ing a desirable conformity of the text in the various formats [of] C. S. Lewis's short poems" (ix, stress added) and in which it is published." It remains to be seen, through incorrectly that the epitaph for Helen Joy Davidman is close examination and use, how free from errors, old or being published here for the first time (xviii), but giving newly introduced, this reset edition truly is. At this writ­ valuable information about the writing of the poems. Also ing, the Houghton Mifflin Co. have not decided whether included in this volume is Lewis's "Introductory Letter," they will make use of the new typesetting in their Ameri­ which he intended for his never completed Young King can editions. [WGH] Cole collection (xix-xxi); its proper title should be something like "Letter to a Reviewer." (The letter seems witty in Watson, George, ed. Critical Thought Series: 1: Lewis's way and, at the moment, this bibliog­ Critical Essays on C. S. Lewis. Aldershot, Eng­ rapher has no reason to doubt its authenticity; land: Scolar Press, 1992. [Contains material by Bennett this seems an odd thing to announce, but 52-75, Tolkien 9, Wain 24-36,201-05.] students of Lewis will understand the situ­ This is a collection of biographical essays ation.) The newly collected poems are these: on Lewis and reviews or critical essays on "The Hills of Down," "Against Potpourri," Lewis's literary criticism. Watson has an in­ "A Prelude," "Ballade of a Winter's Morn­ troduction, which is followed by 46 items ing," "Laus Mortis," "Sonnet—To Sir Philip (one also by Watson) with full bibliographic Sydney" [sic—a variant spelling of Sidney], "Of citations; they are reprinted photographically Ships," "Couplets," "Circe—A Fragment," "Ex­ from their original sources, which leads to a va­ ercise," "Joy," "Leaving for Ever the Home of One's riety of type, etc. A full, annotated listing is obviously Youth," "Awake! My Lute," "Essence," "Consolation," "Finchley Avenue," and "Epitaph for Helen Joy David­ impossible, but a suggestion of the authors may be useful. For some reason, only in one section do all the items man." (Perhaps it is worth noting that the last word of appear in the chronological order of publication. "Joy" should be mine, not mind.) It was mentioned above that this volume, unfortunately, is not complete; for example, There are seven biographical accounts at the first: Lewis and Owen Barfield collaborated on "Abecedarium Tolkien (an excerpt from Letters o f J. R. R. Tolkien, No. 261), Philosophicum," a piece of light verse, which is not here (its Helen Gardner (Proceedings o f the British Academy), an male chauvenism will not help either man's reputation, but anonymous piece from Cambridge Review, John Wain (from it should be included); and "After Kirby's Kalevala," which Encounter), A. J. P. Taylor (from Canadian C. S. Lewis Jour­ Hooper's C. S. Lewis: A Bibliography (Bedford, England: nal), John Constable (from Magdalene College Magazine and Aidan Mackey, 1991) says appears in Poems but does not, is Record), and J. A. W. Bennett (his inaugural lecture, The not here (it is a translation, Hooper's bibliography reports, humane medievalist, in the Medieval and Renaissance chair but still it should be included). It should also be noted that that Lewis had first occupied at Cambridge). One thing this volume does not reprint the 1983 American edition of that is obvious from this list is that the sources are British; Spirits in Bondage, so this version — while it has Hooper's that is not quite true of all of the rest of the book, but it is introduction and bibliographic notes to Poems — does not nearly so. (The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal was published have Hooper's separate introduction and explanatory in England when Taylor's essay appeared.) notes to Spirits in Bondage. [JRC] The second section consists of eight reviews of The Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: Harper­ Allegory o f Love and three critical treatments (one essays and two sections from books). The reviews are by William Collins, [1994] (misstated "1991"). xviii +1147 pp. Empson (The Spectator), Oliver Elton (Medium Aevum), E. This new, reset edition of The Lord of the Rings contains H. W. Meyerstein (London Mercury), Mona Wilson (English a number of new textual corrections supervised by Chris­ J), G. L. Brook (Modem Language Review), Kathleen Tillot- topher Tolkien, as well as a reconfigured index of names son (Review o f English Studies), Vera S. M. Fraser (Criterion), m onno& e Issue 79 jSucocoeR______1995 p A g e 65 and an anonymous reviewer in Notes and Queries. N. S. Stewart (London Review of Books). The final item, A. D. Brooke's "C. S. Lewis and Spenser: Nature, Art and the Nuttall's "Jack the Giant-Killer" from Seven, is an assess­ Bower of Bliss" is the essay, and the excerpts are from Peter ment of Lewis as a critic that turns into an assessment of Dronke's Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love- Lewis as a philosopher (The Abolition of Man). [JRC] Lyric and E. T. Donaldson's Speaking o f Chaucer.

The third section covers, its title says, "Essays and Lectures." It begins with two reviews of and a reaction to Rehabilitations and Other Essays: an anonymous reviewer in Times Literary Supplement, L. C. Knights (Scrutiny), and the reaction to Lewis's educational essays in that volume by Q. D. Leavis (Scrutiny again). Then come two reviews of ((J iR R lO R i i [ o CD GK1 Continued from page 54 the pamphlet edition of Hamlet: the Prince or the Poem?: William W. Lawrence (Modem Language Review) and an the sex." In response, N eil Gaiman says, "If you are going anonymous review in Notes and Queries. Finally there is a to walk a road, you've got to walk it all the w ay.. .you walk down to the depths" (p. 15). (Blood and sex?) Comic books review by Barbara Everett of They Asked fo r a Paper. come ".. .directly out of shamanism," says Rachel Pollock Next, four reviews, one essay, and two book excerpts (p. 14). (W hat m oral possibilities are covered by the word concerning A Preface to Paradise Lost. The first review "shamanism"?) We live in a world "in which everything must be misdated, since it says 1940 and the book was not is up for grabs," says N eil Gaiman (p. 17). (Does the word published until 1942— or possibly that journal was that far "everything" cover all possible moral claims?) In Erick behind in its issues and their dates. The reviews: E. H. W. Sirmenis' review of The Sandman, (p. 80), he points out that Meyerstein (English), H. W. Garrod (The Oxford Magazine), there is an impartial worship of ".. .angels, demons, fairies W illiam R. Parker (Modem Language Notes), and B. A. and Gods." (The worship of demons?) W right (Review of English Studies). The essay is E. E. Stoll's The portrayal of woman warriors in art, like all art, will "G ive the D evil his Due: A Reply to Mr. Lew is" (Review o f take its final meaning from the larger context of its spiri­ English Studies), and the book excerpts are from A. J. A. tual, transcendent principles. In Tintoretto's "Minerva Waldock's Paradise Lost and its Critics and William protecting peace and plenty and repelling Mars," at the Empson's Milton's God. Sala della 'anticollegio in the ducal palace in Venice, the The next section is titled "English Literature in the powerful image of Minerva is grounded in a mythic ontol­ Sixteenth Century," but, besides the book of that title, it ogy. The warrior-woman Minerva (Athena) carries with also covers The Discarded Image. Three reviews and a book her image a whole Homeric "theology." So it will be for excerpt are concerned with the earlier volume: John Wain "Wonder Woman" or Lord Morpheus (Sandman). Rachel (The Spectator), Donald Davie (Essays in Criticism), Yvor Pollack's ".. .favorite esoteric book of all tim e..." is Charles Winter (The Hudson Review), and Emrys Jones's The Origins William's The Place o f the Lion. Let us end this article, then, of Shakespeare. (The latter does not discuss Lewis's views with the hope that it is the underlying metaphysical frame­ of Shakespeare's sonnets but his views of the Humanists.) work of a Williams and a Lewis which will dominate comic The two reviews of The Discarded Image: John Burrow art and the portrayal of women of power. Will it be the (Essays in Criticism) and John Holloway (The Spectator). "Jills" and "Galadrials" which will form the feminine ar­ chetype or "Ishtar, Goddess of Love, sacred prostitute and The last section is titled "Critical Theory and Words." sex" working in a "strip joint" for "a kind of power in It is really a miscellany of nine pieces. It begins with two money paid for love?" (Neil Gaiman, p. 16, Gnosis inter­ discussions of the ideas in Lewis's inaugural lecture at view). The atavistic gods of the dark depths are always (Times Literary Cambridge: an anonymous editorial writer waiting the chance to coop the high mythic images, espe­ Supplement) and Graham Hough (Twentieth Century). Then cially in ages on the cusps o f time. E. M. W. Tillyard writes an essay on Lewis's ideas in "Lilies that Fester," and William Empson, one on Studies in Words. Bibliography (Empson refers to his own writings—on wit, for exam­ 1. Aristotle. Poetics in The Basic Works of Aristotle, Random House, 1941. ple— in the third person; presum ably the original appear­ 2. Kant, Immanual. The Critique o f Judgement. Hafner Press, Macmillan . ance of his discussion, in Times Literary Supplement, was 3. Kant, Immanual. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. University of California Press, Berkeley. anonymous, but he reprinted the essay in one of his own 4. Lewis, C.S. The Last Battle. Collier Books, Macmillan. books.) R. S. Loom is's "Literary History and Literary Criti­ 5. Otto, Walter. The Homeric Gods. Thames & Hudson, 1979. cism: A Critique of C. S. Lewis" is a reply to Lewis's "The 6. Plato. The Republic. Harlin Davidson, Inc., Crofts Classics, 1979. Anthropological Approach." The next item is fairly triv­ 7. Schiller, Frederick. On the Aesthetic Education o f Man. Frederick Ungar ial: Lewis's letter to Essays in Criticism questioning what Publishing Co., New York, 1965. Ian Watt meant by a mythic reference in an essay, and 8. Von Eschenback, Wolfram. Parzifal. Vintage Books, trans. Helen Mus­ tard and Charles E. Passage. Waitt's reply—letters of four sentences each. The seventh and eighth items are reviews of Of This and Other Worlds: Periodicals George Watson (Times Literary Supplement) and J. I. M. 1. Gnosis #32, Summer 1989, "On Funny Books, " by Erik Davis