Rehabilitations and Other Essays
For For students of English literature and of how English was taught at Oxford; not for readers looking for Lewis's religious writing, apart from one essay.
A collection of nine essays published by Oxford University Press in 1939. The title reflects Lewis's purpose: several essays defend writers and ideas then out of fashion. 'Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot' argues for Shelley against T. S. Eliot's criticism; 'William Morris' appreciates the romances; 'The Alliterative Metre' explains the old English measure; 'Variation in Shakespeare and Others' studies a habit of style. Two pieces, 'The Idea of an English School' and 'Our English Syllabus', defend the Oxford English course and its place for older literature, and 'High and Low Brows' questions the distinction its title names. 'Bluspels and Flalansferes' is a much-cited essay on metaphor and meaning, and 'Christianity and Literature' is his first published reflection on faith and creative writing. Most of the essays were later reprinted in Selected Literary Essays (1969), Christian Reflections (1967) and Image and Imagination (2013).
Catalog IDW.32W1BB.W