A Controversy
SIGNED BY C.S. LEWIS
The Personal Heresy: A Controversy
OUP, 1939.
First edition. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Signed by the author on the front end paper (for K.P. Storer). A near fine copy.
A series of six essays debating poetry and the importance of understanding the poet's state of mind in order to appreciate his work. Tillyard writes, "All poetry is about the poet's state of mind." To understand Paradise Lost correctly, he stated, one must read it as an "expression of Milton's personality." Whilst Lewis maintains that knowledge of the poet's personal life is unnecessary to the interpretation of his poetry. "The thing presented to us in any poem is not and never can be the personality of the poet. It is the liquid movement of silk, or age or history."
Lewis rarely signed his books and examples are rare.
PROVENANCE: From the library of Kenneth Peter Storer (1924-2007) who came up to University College, Oxford to read English in 1942. C.S. Lewis, although then a fellow at Magdalen had been at University College as an undergraduate and retained strong links with the college. In particular he would take the English tutorials for University College students as they had no English fellow at the time. Storer was one such undergraduate, who developed a friendship with Lewis and dined with him on more then one occasion where Lewis gave him signed copies of his books.
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