'the combination of truth to the words Virgil wrote, natural vernacular speech and a general at-homeness on the land make Fallon's an inspired translation' Seamus Heaney, Irish Times 'magnificent new translation...Fallon is the perfect translator for the Georgics' Bernard O'Donoghue, Times Lit...
FromMere Christianity,the most widely read of Lewis’s nonfiction works. This quote is taken from chapter 8.Here’s the fuller context: “…the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy...
in fact, slip-sliding away to the abolition of man, as Lewis himself foresaw in early 1943. It was then (specifically on the evenings of February 24-26) that he delivered the University of Durham’s Riddell Memorial Lectures which were combined and published later that same year by Oxford...
Also fromThe Problem of Pain,just a few paragraphs down from the quote above. Lewis is referencing, “the eternal dance ‘makes heaven drowsy with the harmony’” Here’s the fuller context: “All pains and pleasures we have known on earth are early initiations in the movements of that dan...
Lewis concludes, much like Job, that, “God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always kn...