A repackaged edition of the revered author’s set of dueling critical essays with fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard in which they debate the role of an author’s biography in the critical appraisal of literature.
C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—challenges fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard on one of the most intriguing questions involving writers and writing. Is a work of imaginative literature primarily influenced by the author or by the subject matter? 
Lewis argues that the author’s own personality and biography has little to no impact on the writing, while Tillyard contends the opposite: that the author’s own imagination and story have an indelible influence on a piece of work. Clever, erudite, and enlightening, their debate may not definitively settle the issue, but it does offer invaluable insight and intellectual delight for all dedicated readers.

The Personal Heresy: A Controversy

Literature & Fiction

Tillyard, E.M.W.

Lewis. C.S.

History & Criticism

HarperOne

This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortune; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humors; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance—ideas and symbols that inspirited the imaginations not only of the Elizabethans, but also of the Renaissance as such.  This idea of cosmic order was one of the genuine ruling ideas of the Elizabethan Age, and perhaps the most characteristic. Such ideas, like our everyday manners, are the least disputed and the least paraded in the creative literature of the time. The province of this book is some of the notions about the world and man that were quite frequently taken for granted by the ordinary educated Elizabethan; the commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of, except in explicitly educational passages, but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion.  The objective of The Elizabethan World Picture is to extract and explain the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan Age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age. In attempting this, Tillyard has brought together a number of pieces of elementary lore. This classic text is a convenient factual aid to extant interpretations of some of Spenser, Donne, or Milton.

The Elizabethan World Picture

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Shakespeare's History Plays (Penguin Literary Criticism)

Shakespeare's Problem Plays (Pelican)

Dramas & Plays

Shakespeare's Last Plays

Shakespeare's Last Plays was the first of E. M. W. Tilyard's influential works on Shakespeare. In it, Dr Tilyard argues that the last plays – Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest – develop patterns found in the earlier works. He shows how Shakespeare intertwines reconciliation (the final phase of the tragedies) with an awareness of possible worlds (where the ‘natural' and supernatural have equal status), and concludes that The Tempest, by subordinating his tragic pattern, is his greatest achievement.

Shakespeare's last plays

Athlone Press

NO ROYALTY A/C EPIC STRAIN IN THE ENG.NOVEL

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

. Chatto & Windus, 1944, clean copy with dustjacket, feint toning to pages, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981

Shakespeare's History Plays

Chatto&Windus

History

Europe

Pimlico

Originally published in 1938, this book considers the status of John Milton among later poets and how Milton's poetry was received by later generations in very different political and religious settings. Tillyard considers a number of aspects of Milton's style and legacy, including his influence on Keats. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Milton's work.

The Miltonic Setting Past and Present

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

The Personal Heresy by C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard.   The Personal Heresy is a collection of six essays authored by C. S. Lewis and E. M. W. Tillyard. Three by each author.   In this book C. S. Lewis is supporting the viewpoint that the author's own personality has meager or no impact on his or her imaginative writings on the contrary the outer world or the environment affects one's creative or imaginary writings dominantly.   On the other hand, E. M. W. Tillyard is supporting the viewpoint that the author's own imagination has a major impact on his or her imaginative or creative writing.

The Personal Heresy

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