The Oxford Inklings

Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle

De: Colin Duriez

Narrado por: Simon Vance

The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis' college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on "the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life".

Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez unpacks the Inklings' origins, relationships, and the nature of their collaboration. He shows how they influenced, encouraged, and moulded each other. Duriez also covers the less celebrated Inklings, neglected, he claims, for too long. What did they owe - and offer - to the more acknowledged names? What brought them together? And what, eventually, drove them apart from their initial focus upon each other's writings?

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©2009 Colin Duriez (P)2020 Oasis Audio

interesting but repetitive

While I found most of the book interesting and discovered heretofore unknown facts about the main protagonists, CS Lewis and Tolkien, I find the constant repetition of parts of the story very annoying. I frequently wondered if I had somehow inadvertently rewound the audio. Introducing members of the Inklings with their own chapter often meant regurgitating parts of the story already heard. This title could use some serious editing.

Great insights into the Inklings

Very well researched book on the circle of writers and thinkers around Tolkien and Lewis.