The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings (99 page)

“rather jumped at”: Blaxland–de Lange
, Owen Barfield
, 40.

“spoke of Jack … flew from Los Angeles”: Ibid., 307.

“you go at it”: Lewis,
Surprised by Joy
, 200.

United States poet laureate: From 1937 to 1986, encompassing Nemerov’s first term of service, the official title of the post was “Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress”; from 1986 to the present day, including Nemerov’s second term of service, the title has been “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.”

“ambassador at the court”: Donna L. Potts,
Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), 1.

“a strong affinity”: Letter, Owen Barfield to Professor Coburn, February 16, 1963, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1054.

“had a muddled life”: Barfield,
What Coleridge Thought
, 5.

“even my unsatisfactory children … I like the work”: Blaxland–de Lange,
Owen Barfield
, 305.

“an interpenetration”: Coleridge,
Biographia Literaria
, chap. 18, quoted in Owen Barfield,
Speaker’s Meaning
(Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1967), 82.

“plot”: Barfield,
Speaker’s Meaning
, 117.

“non-spatial relationships”: Owen Barfield,
Unancestral Voice
(Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965)
,
143.

“stimulating and not infrequently”: Ivor Thomas, “Hello Meggid,”
The Times Literary Supplement
3306 (July 8, 1965): 583.

“The events and troubles … I am at last recovering”: Tolkien, letter to Rayner Unwin, May 28, 1964, quoted in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 618.

“I feel his loss”: Quoted in Martin Bentham, “Literary Greats Exposed as Gossips and Snipes,”
Sunday Telegraph
, February 7, 1999, and then in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 615.

“He was a great man”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 341.

“a Catholic could not”: Quoted in Christie’s,
20th-Century Books and Manuscripts,
November 16, 2001, 22, and in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 612.

“And once again”: C. S. Lewis,
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964), 124.

“I personally found”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 352.

“about prayer”: Quoted in A. N. Wilson,
C. S. Lewis
, xvii.

“ponderous silliness”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 302.

“crops up regularly”: Quoted in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader’s Guide
, 1044.

“a remarkable creature … till people more aware”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 353.

“my admiration for”: Ibid., 356.

“confused”: Ibid., 359.

“frequently fired verbal”: Clyde S. Kilby,
Tolkien &
The Silmarillion (Wheaton, Ill.: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1976), 36.

“on a lawn”: J.R.R. Tolkien,
Smith of Wootton Major
(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967; New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 31–33.

“a good tale”: Robert Phelps, “For Young Readers,”
The New York Times Book Review
(February 4, 1968): 76.

“Tolkien needs”: Naomi Mitchison, “Why Not Grown-Ups Too?”
Glasgow Herald
(November 25, 1967): 9.

Some saw in the hero: For Smith as Anodos, see Mathew Dickerson, “Smith of Wootton Major (Character),” in Drout,
J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia
, 619–20.

“an old man’s”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 389.

“periphery”: Charles Moorman,
The Precincts of Felicity
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966), 101.

“in days to come”: Moorman,
Precincts of Felicity
, 138.

“silly … frankly absurd”: W. H. Lewis,
Brothers and Friends
, 268.

“died at the same instant … But little did I realize”: Ibid., 269.

“Hell-hole”: Ibid., 255.

“busybody … withering discourse”: Ibid., 256–57. See discussion by Walter Hooper, introduction,
Letters of C. S. Lewis
, 12–17. Hooper’s revised and enlarged edition of this book, published in 1988, included more complete versions of the letters Warnie had excerpted.

“on my death bed”: Ibid., 277.

“that nice type”: Ibid., 261.

“It is rather queer”: Letter, Owen Barfield to R. J. Reilly, April 17, 1969, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1056.

“Red Indians … not unpleasingly”: Quoted in Blaxland–de Lange,
Owen Barfield
, 309.

“his researches”: G. B. Tennyson, “Barfield and the Rebirth of Meaning,”
The Southern Review
, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1, 1969): 42.

“I always felt … Towards the end”: Letter, Nevill Coghill to Owen Barfield, July 1, 1965, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1056.

“I am so glad … since the
Times
”: Letter, Colin Hardie to Owen Barfield, November 6, 1979, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1058. The
Times
had suspended publication because of a labor dispute in November 1978. It resumed regular publication a week or so after Hardie wrote his letter.

“I heard from”
:
Letter, Cecil Harwood to Owen Barfield, April 1972, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1057.

“that I wasn’t”: Blaxland–de Lange,
Owen Barfield
, 31.

“She is not well … What a life”: Letter, Owen Barfield to Craig Miller, October 31, 1970, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1074.

492–93
“Contemplating in all … Where logical opposites”: Barfield,
What Coleridge Thought
, 35–36.

“a full-fledged theory”: Ibid., 55

“
Yearning …
the whole”: Ibid., 136–37.

“Like Hegel”: Ibid., 177.

“orderly and lucid”: Anthony C. Yu,
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
42, no. 3 (September 1974): 579.

“quite indispensable”: G. A. Cevasco,
Studies in Romanticism
11, no. 2 (Spring 1972): 158.

“admirable grasp … minds of such dissimilar”: John Colmer,
Modern Language Review
68, no. 4 (October 1973): 894–95.

“I think that receiving”: Royal Society of Literature, Report, 1966–1967, 39, quoted in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 703.

“in a world … And after all that has happened”: Tolkien, letter of February 8, 1967, to Charlotte and Denis Plimmer commenting on a draft of their interview with him for
The Daily Telegraph Magazine
, in Tolkien,
Letters
, 378.

“found none of them”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 372.

leg would be amputated: Walter Hooper to the authors, personal interview, July 15, 2006.

“a ship or ark”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 405.

“chaotic and illegible”: Christopher Tolkien, “Late Writings,” in Tolkien,
Peoples of Middle-earth
, 294.

“‘Stories’ still sprout”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 404.

“made his way”: Clyde Kilby, “Woodland Prisoner,” 13 in Kilby Files, 3–8, Wade Collection, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, quoted in Drout,
J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia
, 89.

“things they design”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 399.

“I am utterly bereaved”: Ibid., 415.

“she was my”: Sotheby’s
English Literature and English History
, London, December 6–7, 1984, lot 273, quoted in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R.
Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 758. The Sotheby’s catalogue has “raven” as “river”; we, following Scull and Hammond, have given “raven” as the likely correct transcription.

“before very long”: “Tolkien Seeks the Quiet Life in Oxford,”
Oxford Mail
(March 22, 1972): 10.

“as the Road”:
Oxford University Gazette
, CII, no. 3511 (June 8, 1972): 1079, quoted in Lewis,
Collected Letters
, vol. 3, 1681.

“terrible words seen”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 422.

“Peace to her ashes”: W. H. Lewis,
Brothers and Friends
, 300.

“I have been assailed”: Sotheby’s
English Literature, History, Private Press & Children’s Books
, London, December 12, 2002, 239, quoted in Scull and Hammond,
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology
, 772.

“lost confidence … sits cold and unable”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 431.

“the Meggid … entirely justified”: Saul Bellow,
Letters
, ed. Benjamin Taylor (New York: Viking, 2010), 327–35.

“of course there’s no guarantee”: Letter, Owen Barfield to Friedrich Hiebel, October 25, 1975, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1057.

“a certain daily stability”: Bellow,
Letters
, 334.

“I couldn’t get up”: Blaxland–de Lange,
Owen Barfield
, 54.

“I can’t easily accept”: Bellow,
Letters
, 369.

“damage … a peashooter”: Blaxland–de Lange,
Owen Barfield
, 60.

“four or five years … I will have made”: Bellow,
Letters
, 371–72.

“excruciating … a deep”: Owen Barfield, “East, West, and Saul Bellow,”
Towards
(Spring 1983): 26–28.

“perhaps your understanding … hard, militant and angry”: Bellow,
Letters
, 399–400.

Crown Princess Michiko: See Letter, Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., to Owen Barfield, December 5, 1975, Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1057.

unpublished: Both books were published after Barfield’s death: Owen Barfield,
Night Operation
([San Rafael]: Barfield Press, 2009), and Owen Barfield,
Eager Spring
([U.K.: Barfield Press, 2009).

“North America has shown”: Owen Barfield, “Information for my Literary Executors, April, 1985,” Barfield Papers, Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 1255.

to declare her love: See Barfield Archives, especially Box 1058, Bodleian Library.

“I just can’t imagine … I am a bit”: Blaxland–de Lange
, Owen Barfield
, 294–95.

“once-born … see God not”: William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
, quoted in Gerard Irvine, “David’s Religion,” in
David Cecil: A Portrait by His Friends
, ed. Hannah Cranborne (Stanbridge, UK: Dovecote Press 1991), 181.

“I’m so tired … I know what you’re sad about”: Personal interview with Walter Hooper, July 15, 2006.

EPILOGUE: THE RECOVERED IMAGE

“one fine evening”: “Is There an Oxford ‘School’ of Writing? A Discussion Between Rachel Trickett and David Cecil,”
The Twentieth Century (formerly the Nineteenth Century & After)
157, no. 940 (June 1955): 570.

507–508
“there
is
something … savour of grace and gracious piety”: Ibid., 561–65. See also James Patrick,
The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford 1901–1945
(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985).

more likely to be Christian: See C. S. Lewis, letter to Sister Penelope, Lewis,
Collected Letters
, vol. 2, 701.

“Sooner or later”: C. S. Lewis, “The Decline of Religion,”
The Cherwell
26 (November 29, 1946): 8–10, reprinted in Lewis,
God in the Dock.
About the signs of a Christian revival at Oxford, Lewis observed, “No one would deny that Christianity is now ‘on the map’ among the younger intelligentsia as it was not, say, in 1920. Only freshmen now talk as if the anti-Christian position were self-evident.”

path of real conversion: Lewis himself was, in Walter Hooper’s eyes, “the most thoroughly
converted
man I ever met.” Walter Hooper, preface to Lewis,
God in the Dock
, 12.

essay in
Books on Trial
: Brady, “Unicorns at Oxford,” 59–60.

“Lor’ bless you”: Lewis,
Collected Letters
, vol. 3, 824.

“I don’t think Tolkien influenced me”: Letter to Francis Anderson, Lewis,
Collected Letters
, vol. 3, 1458.

“short Xtian Dictionary”: Letter to Dorothy L. Sayers, Lewis,
Collected Letters
, vol. 2, 721.

“a book of animal stories”: Lewis,
Essays Presented to Charles Williams
, xii. See Diana Pavlac Glyer’s valuable study
The Company They Keep
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2007) for more on the question of mutual influence.

“it has been my nightmare”: Germaine Greer, in
W: The Waterstone’s Magazine
(Winter/Spring 1997), quoted by Tom Shippey in his foreword to
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
, xxii.

“I am in fact a
Hobbit
”: Tolkien,
Letters
, 288.

“O great glory”: Tolkien,
Lord of the Rings
, 954.

“All my choices have proved ill”: Ibid., 604.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The bibliography provided here includes the editions we consulted in preparing this book. It ranges beyond a “works cited” list, highlighting English-language books of general interest for Inklings studies, but it is not intended to be comprehensive. For more extensive bibliographies and publication histories, we recommend the following resources:

Brazier, Paul.
C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource
. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2012.

Christopher, Joe R., and Joan K. Ostling.
C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him and His Works
. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1974.