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 / Corey Latta.

Author: Latta, Corey, author.

ImprintEugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2016]

Descriptionix, 239 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Ink to cure all human ills -- How reading made a writer -- The glories of childhood -- Entirely in the imagination -- Engulfed -- I myself have been reading -- What? you too? -- Tell me more about John Silence -- Avoid nearly all magazines -- Phantastes -- Like a thunderclap -- A great reading event -- Conscious of style -- Imagination and mere fancy -- Pleased to find Keats -- Less and less I can share -- I myself always index a good book -- We demand windows -- More with a castle in a story -- I have to do it for myself -- To those early little essays in the old days -- With Greeves and Loki -- Practice, practice, practice -- Lewis proposes an edit -- Bleheris is dead -- If only I could get my book accepted -- There it is by itself and done -- My imagination seems to have died -- Pen to paper -- Sooner or later you will have to write -- Kill the part of you that wants success -- The perfect circle is made -- Bad by any theory of style -- Form is soul -- Crisp as Grape Nuts, hard as a hammer, clear as glass -- Not a vestige of real creativity -- An idea and then an itch -- One never knows what one's in for - A thing inside him pawing to get out -- Forgiven for writing only two kinds of books -- Like a nightmare on my chest -- An absolute corker -- The muscles of language -- Use the talent we have -- It is like bereavement in this way -- Of loathing and letter writing -- Make quite clear what you mean -- Prefer the plain -- Concrete ones will do -- Instead of telling us a thing . . . describe it -- Words too big for the subject.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.

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