C. S. Lewis's allegory enhanced with a wealth of annotations, including notes by Lewis himself Modeled after John Bunyan's famous Pilgrim's Progress, C. S. Lewis's Pilgrim's Regress represents a number of firsts for Lewis--the first book he wrote after his conversion to Christianity, his first book of fiction, and the first book he published under his own name. This splendid annotated edition, produced in collaboration with the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois, helps readers recover the richness of Lewis's allegory. Often considered obscure and difficult to read, The Pilgrim's Regress nonetheless remains a witty satire on cultural fads, a vivid account of spiritual dangers, and an illuminating tale for generations of pilgrims old and new. Editor David C. Downing's critical introduction provides needed biographical and cultural context for fully appreciating The Pilgrim's Regress. Downing relies throughout both on his own expertise and on previously unpublished sources from Lewis himself to identify allusions to other authors, translate quotations, and explain humor hidden within Lewis's text. Among the hundreds of annotations are references that draw parallels to Lewis's later works, including Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, and the Chronicles of Narnia.
Before they had gone many paces, however, Vertue turned again and lifted a stone in his hand. 'Be off,' he said, 'or I'll throw it. We have nothing to do with one another, you and I. My own body and my own soul are enemies, ...
Including the complete annotated text of Lewis's poem, this volume helps us understand both Lewis's change of mind and our own journeys of faith.
W. H. Lewis, ed., The Lewis Papers, vol. 1, 2. Bingham, C. S. Lewis: A Shiver of Wonder, 5. Hayes, ed., St. Mark's Church, Dundela, Diocese of Down, 2. Ibid., 18. Beckett, The Lion on the Hill, 11. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600–1972, 396.
Volume 9, 2015 Bruce R. Johnson. C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, ed. and introduced by David C. Downing; illustrated by Michael Hague (Grand Rapids, Michigan ... The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition.
Finding the Landlord explains all obscure references in Pilgrim's Regress, as well as chronicling Lewis' near-parallel journey to faith.
David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.
388 Kallistos Ware, “Sacramentalism in C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams,” in C. S. Lewis & His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society, edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe (Oxford: Oxford ...
He has read more classics than any boy I ever had – or indeed I might add than any I ever heard of, unless it be an Addison or Landor or Macaulay. These are people we read of, but I have never met any. (W. H. Lewis 1934, 74) Finally, ...
the poetic expression, which in extreme cases aimed at a mystical sense of the poetic text. ... di Naufragi (1919), and the lack of punctuation at the end of each poem, in the style Guillaume Apollinaire adopted in his Calligrammes.
... The Pilgrim's Regress is the quickness with which it was written. In the editor's introduction to the Wade Center's annotated edition of The Pilgrim's Regress, David Downing comments, “It may also be the first book composed in two weeks ...