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116. Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); Also see: Michael Ward, The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2010).
117. BBC News, C. S. Lewis Letters Sells for 4,600 pounds [$5,700] at Auction. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-30531079. Accessed April 17, 2017. In 2019, ABE books listed a C. S. Lewis letter for sale at $46,000 on their abebooks.com.
118. Edwin W. Brown with Dan Hamilton, In Pursuit of C. S. Lewis: Adventures in Collecting His Works (Bloomington: Author-House), 206.
119. Excellent C. S. Lewis biographies include: George Sayer, Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1994); Alister McGrath, C. S. Lewis: A Life (Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers Inc., 2013); Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper. C. S. Lewis: A Biography (London: HarperCollins, 2002); Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperCollins, 2008); Devin Brown, A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis (Ada: Brazos Press, 2013).
120. Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe and Diana K. Ivy, Communication: Principles for a Lifetime (Boston: Pearson, 2019), 7.
121. Caroline Keefe, C. S. Lewis: Speaker and Teacher (Michigan: Zondervan, 1971).
122. Terry Lindvall. C. S. Lewis’ Theory of Communication. Unpublished doctoral dissertation University of Southern California (1980). Dr. Lindvall’s insightful and comprehensive work was especially helpful to me as I developed my own thoughts about Lewis and communication. Also see: Gary L. Tandy, The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009). Another excellent resource that was especially influential to my thinking: Greg M. Anderson, “A Most Potent Rhetoric: C. S. Lewis, ‘Congenital Rhetorician’,” C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, ed. Bruce L. Edwards (Westport: Praeger Perspectives, 2007), 195–228; Also see: James Como, Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis (Dallas: Spence Publishing Company, 1998).
123. Gary L. Tandy, The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009).
124. Como, Branches to Heaven.
125. Greg M. Anderson, “A Most Potent Rhetoric.”
126. Corey Latta, C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2016).
127. Terry Lindvall, C. S. Lewis’ Theory of Communication.
128. Owen Barfield, “Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis.” ed. G. B. Tennyson (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1989 and San Rafael: Sophia Perennis, The Barfield Press, 2006), 121–122.
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129. For a description of Lewis’s argument to look holistically at and along what is observed see: C. S. Lewis. “Mediation in a Toolshed,”God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), 212.
130. C. S. Lewis, Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV, March 25, 1943, Collected Letters. II, 565.
131. Lewis, Sister Penelope, Collected Letters II, 565.
132. See: Johnson, “C. S. Lewis and the BBC’s Brains Trust,” 67–92.
133. Johnson, “C. S. Lewis and the BBC’s Brain’s Trust,” 67–92.
134. C. S. Lewis, “Christian Apologetics,” God in the Dock, ed. Walter Hooper (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), 96.
135. C. S. Lewis, Letter to Patricia Thomson, December 8, 1941, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931-1949, ed. Walter Hooper (London: HarperCollins, 2004), 499–500.
136. C. S. Lewis, as quoted by Walter Hooper, “Preface,” Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966), v.
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“[T];he only thing of any importance (if that is) about me is what I have to say … I can’t abide the idea that a man’s books should be “set in their biographical context” and if I had some rare information about the private life of Shakespeare or Dante I’d throw it in the fire, tell no one, and re-read their works. All this biographical interest is only a device for indulging in gossip as an excuse for not reading what the chaps say, [which] is their only real claim on our attention. (I here resist a wild impulse to invent some really exciting background—that I am an illegitimate son of Edward VII, married to a chimpanzee, was rescued from the practice of magic by a Russian monk, and always eat eggs with the shells on.)”1
- C. S. Lewis
“In his rooms in the New Building … I found a medium-size, rather stout, ruddy-faced man with a fine, large head (what the Germans call a ‘Charakterkopf’), and a booming voice much given to what someone once called ‘rhetorical guffawing’ (‘Ho, ho, ho, so you think Milton was ascetic, do you? Ho, ho! You are quite wrong there!’). Lewis looked—and often acted—like the book description of Friar Tuck. His general manner was pronouncedly and—it often seemed—deliberately hearty. But he displayed no heartiness during my first interview with him.