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'A remarkable intellect turns to the work of Spenser, Dante, Malory, Tasso and Milton. The 14 essays provide insight into medieval life as well as medieval literature.' Philadelphia Inquirer
'This collection of essays … is an invaluable addition to the library of anyone who, as Lewis did, not only reads, teaches and writes about medieval and Renaissance literature, but loves it.' Cahiers Elisabethians
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Although his professional output was fairly modest in quantity, in quality it enjoys a high reputation. His longer works include "The Allegory of Love", "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century", "Studies in Words", and "The Discarded Image". In addition to these, he also wrote a number of short works, which are published in this volume. To aid readers, I've listed the table of contents below:
Preface (by Walter Hooper)
"De Audiendis Poetis
"The Genesis of a Medieval Book"
"Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages"
"Dante's Similes"
"Imagery in the Last Eleven Cantos of Dante's Comedy"
"Dante's Statius"
"The Morte Darthur"
"Tasso"
"Edmund Spenser, 1552-99"
"On Reading the Faerie Queene"
"Neoplatonism in the Poetry of Spenser"
"Spenser's Cruel Cupid"
"Genius and Genius"
"A Note on Comus"
Additional Editorial Notes
Index
None of these works are available in any other in-print collection (unusual for Lewis - his other shorter works have been collected multiple times in a variety of overlapping collections). As such, for those interested in the subject matter, this collection is highly recommended.
A second important collection of Lewis's writings as a literary critic is "Selected Literary Essays", which unfortunately is out of print and very hard to find. Another such collection to consider, (largely concerned with the science fiction and fantasy genres), is "On Stories, and Other Essays". That work is readily available.
Finally, those with a general interest in Lewis's shorter works may also want to get "Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces", which, as of the time of this writing, is available from Amazon UK but not Amazon US. That collection consists of about 130 short works by Lewis. While the collection centers around his writings on Christianity, it also includes a number of works of literary criticism, including all the works in "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories".
Other essays are much more detailed and are really aimed at the specialist. Lewis' several essays on Dante are of this sort: they are characterized by a marked lack of translation from the Italian (or Anglo-Saxon or Latin or . . . ). I suspect that to other specialists, these would be interesting and engaging. I'm no such specialist, and can't judge them from that perspective. I certainly found them to be informative, especially if you consider that nearly all of what Lewis had to say was, as they say, "information to me". If you're interested in Lewis for apologetic or theological reasons, these essays will open your eyes to what Lewis himself saw as the center of his career -- but even there, I would probably recommend starting with The Discarded Image or A Preface to Paradise Lost. Both of those are more disputational in nature (if much less so than his overtly theological works), and hence more likely to hold a dabbler's interest.
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