By C. S. Lewis,E. M. W. Tillyard

In his awesome essay on "The own Heresy in feedback" C.S. Lewis attacked the commonly held trust that poetry is, or may be, the expression of the poet's character. His try and supplant this assumption with an target or impersonal conception of poetry was once challenged through Dr. E. M. W. Tillyard whose interpretation of "Paradise misplaced" he had referred to as in query. So begun a courteous yet looking out sequence of exchanges among of the main discovered and unique scholar-critics of the day. This controversy sheds necessary gentle on an issue as advanced because it is important to the knowledge and appreciation of poetry.

Dr. E. M. W. Tillyard, who died in 1962, used to be for fourteen years grasp of Jesus collage, Cambridge, and writer of many works of literary feedback. those comprise Milton, Shakespeare’s final performs, The Miltonic environment, Shakespeare’s old performs, Shakespeare’s challenge performs, and reviews in Milton.

Professor C. S. Lewis used to be Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge from 1954 till his demise in 1963. the most flexible authors, his writings contain not just such ordinary works because the Allegory of affection and English Literature within the 16th Century, yet his books of Christian apologetic (The challenge of ache, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity), his autobiography, and books for kids that have made him popular to a large and admiring public.

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