Lewis (C.S.) and E.M.W. Tillyard.
The Personal Heresy.
A Controversy.
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FIRST EDITION, occasional light foxing throughout,
pp. [viii], 150, crown 8vo,
original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, the flyleaf with ownership inscription of 'Basil Mitchell, Keble College, Oxford' (see below), very good
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Oxford University Press, 1939
Notes: A scholarly tussle engendered by Lewis's response to Tillyard's 1930 work on Milton. Lewis objected to Tillyard's central tenet that 'Paradise Lost' was 'really about [...] the true state of Milton's mind when he wrote it' (Tillyard, 'Milton', p. 237); in Lewis's own copy of the book he classifies this remark of Tillyard's as 'the arch error', whilst a similar assertion two pages later receives terse damnation - 'fatal'. Expanding on his disapproval with an essay 'The Personal Heresy in Criticism', Lewis drew a rejoinder from Tillyard, and these along with two further articles and responses be...moreA scholarly tussle engendered by Lewis's response to Tillyard's 1930 work on Milton. Lewis objected to Tillyard's central tenet that 'Paradise Lost' was 'really about [...] the true state of Milton's mind when he wrote it' (Tillyard, 'Milton', p. 237); in Lewis's own copy of the book he classifies this remark of Tillyard's as 'the arch error', whilst a similar assertion two pages later receives terse damnation - 'fatal'. Expanding on his disapproval with an essay 'The Personal Heresy in Criticism', Lewis drew a rejoinder from Tillyard, and these along with two further articles and responses between the two men are collected in this volume 'The Personal Heresy: A Controversy'. Lewis relished the battle and maintained a mocking affection for his opponent - 'he's the nicest donkey you can imagine', he wrote in a letter from 1944. The copy of Oxford philosopher, Basil Mitchell, dating from his time at Keble College, where he was a tutor from 1947; he had previously attended Queen's College, Oxford and was later appointed Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Mitchell was a member of the Socratic Club at the same time as Lewis, and succeeded him as its President. HIDE
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Published Date: 1939
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