Collected Letters Volume Two: Books, Broadcasts and War, 1931–1949. Walter Hooper. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Walter Hooper
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TO JANET SPENS (BOD):

      The Kilns,

      Headington Quarry.

      Jan 8th 1935

      Dear Miss Spens

) there is, after all, an active verb,
.2 But is this merely a grammatical accident—is it not perhaps the real answer? Can the thing really be conceived in one way or the other? In real life it feels like both, and both, I suspect, are the same. Even on the human level does any one feel that the passive voice of the word beloved is really exclusive—that to attract is a—what do you call it—the opposite of a deponent? However, I must tackle him again. He has shaken me up extremely.3

      Yours sincerely

      C. S. Lewis

       TO CECIL HARWOOD (BOD):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

      Feb 5th 1935.

      My dear Harwood,

      The poem is very good-perfect except for the rather clumsy end of stanza one.

      I note your position about the walk you and Beckett are about equally problematical, but for different dates. A pretty tangle!

      Yours

      C.S.L.

       TO OWEN BARFIELD (W):

      Magdalen College,

      Oxford.

      [March 1935]

      My dear Barfield

      Yes- I would love to go with Beckett & you on the Tuesday and return on Sunday night. Where is the Venue?

      I don’t think I can come and stay this Vac. If I find I can I shall just ask myself and you can refuse me if

      The Christmas poem is a complete success. The other is perfectly satisfactory stuff but too uncoloured to stand alone: in a context it would come out alright.

      I have done about 200 lines of the Aeneid into riming alexandrines: it goes like fun into that metre, and you can reproduce the effect of the hexameter, getting nearly a prose rhythm in the middle and pulling itself together at the end.

      Harwood was down for the week end. He gets better and better-not to talk to, you know (in (that respect he gets worse) but just better.

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      Yours

      C. S. Lewis

       TO PAUL ELMER MORE (PRIN):

      The Kilns,

      Headington Quarry,

      Oxford.

      April 5th 1935

      My dear Mr. More

      I mention this, partly no doubt from vanity, but partly because it proves that there is a demand for some literary theory not based, like the prevailing ones, on materialism. (You