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Introduction: The Inklings |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE INKLINGS |
| Author: Carson Daly |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 598 Words, 3,610 Characters |
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A genius for friendship is a gift that great men frequently lack, but it was a talent that C.S. Lewis possessed to an extraordinary degree. A brilliant scholar, critic, novelist, essayist, writer of children's books, and Christian apologist, he was always on the lookout for like-minded men whose wit, erudition, and virtue could rival his own.
In this search he did not go unrewarded. At Oxford, Lewis discovered a large, if select, circle of ...
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..., both men were richly blessed in mind and spirit, but they were also given the great gift of kindred spirits with whom to share their talents. In the two articles that follow, Derrick and Tennyson eloquently testify that if ever men could claim Yeats' boast as their own, it was C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield:Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends.
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