Non-Fiction
£120
Edited by Walter Hooper
Cambridge, at the University Press, 1969.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Assembled posthumously by Walter Hooper, Lewis's tireless (his critics would say tirelessly proprietorial) literary executor, this gathers the professional criticism: essays ranging across Jane Austen, Shelley, Kipling, William Morris and the literary influence of the Authorised Version, written with the clarity of a man who believed criticism should be readable, a position that has perhaps never quite caught on...