C.S. Lewis

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an Irish-born writer who spent most of his adult life in Oxford and Cambridge, studying, teaching, enjoying the company of friends (including J.R.R. Tolkien) - and also writing some of the most widely read and influential books of his era. He wrote some works of scholarship, as might be expected of an Oxbridge professor, but it was as a Christian apologist and a writer of fiction - in particular as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia - that he became most widely known. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at Lewis's life and works, which included (among many others) The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and of course, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and its sequels. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” and "Piano Between" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, Clive Staples Lewis was better known to the world as CS Lewis, academic scholar,
0:16.1	writer of fiction, an apologist for the Christian faith. He was known to his
0:20.6	friends as Jack. Jack Lewis.
0:23.7	He took that name for himself when he was four years old, when his beloved family dog,
0:28.5	Jackson, had been run over by a car.
0:31.6	Clive Staples, who didn't love his own name all that much anyway, responded
0:36.0	to death in a deep way. Jackson is no more. I'll honor him. Please call me Jack from now on.
0:45.0	The story has the seedlings of many things in C.S. Lewis's life.
0:49.0	He loved animals.
0:50.0	In a young age, he was writing stories about them them much in the vein of his favorite author Beatrix Potter who also wrote about talking animals in her Peter Rabbit stories.
1:00.0	The story shows too that he was fascinated by words and language and naming things.
1:06.2	How many kids renamed themselves at age four were the name that sticks for the rest of their
1:10.8	life?
1:11.8	He could feel things deeply, a deep empathy that sometimes
1:16.0	surprised and overwhelmed him. He cared. And maybe this most of all he's just likable.
1:24.0	You hear the story and think, well this sounds like a neat little guy.
1:28.0	I probably would have liked him.
1:30.0	I'm reminded of something the New Yorker writer George W S. Trau wrote.
1:35.0	I encountered him late in his career when he was getting more and more bizarre.
1:40.0	Nobody was writing like him in those days.
1:42.0	He had always been eclectic,
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