Friday, October 25, 2019
The Great C.S. Lewis :: biographies bio biography
C.S. Lewis, the great author, wrote all kinds of reading material: poetry, novels, and even children's fiction. He even wrote at a young age. He would draw his own pictures. People during his time loved his books, and today people still love to read his books. This author was also intelligent, joyful, and charitable. C.S. Lewis was a very intelligent man. He proved this in many ways during his lifetime. The way he lived is a very good example. When Lewis became a Christian, as J.I. Packer and Jerry Root write in their article, "Mind in Motion," His habits of mind also continued unchanged. He was already thinking how he thought a Christian should. He also shows his intelligence during his teen tears at Oxford, when he excelled as a student. He was also intelligent as a tutor. Kenneth Tynan, LewisÃâs former pupil, tells in Bruce L. EdwardsÃâs magazine article ÃâLiterary Time Travel,Ãâ ÃâThe great thing about him as a teacher of literature was that he could take you into the medieval mind and the mind of a classical writer. He could make you understand that classicism and medievalism were really vivid and alive-that it was not the business to be ÃârelevantÃâ to us, but our business to be ÃârelevantÃâ to it. It was not a matter of dead books covered in dust on our shelves. He could make you see the world through the eyes of a medieval poet as no other teacher could do. You felt that you had been inside ChaucerÃâs mind after talking to him.Ãâ It is instances like these that show just how intelligent C.S. Lewis really was. C.S. Lewis was a very joyful man, and his joyfulness shone through in all he did. He would assign nicknames to his family members and friends, like Robert E. Havard Ãâthe useless QuackÃâ or as he called his walking companion A.C. Harwood, Ãâthe Lord of the Walks.Ãâ Another glimpse of his joyful spirit is when he finished his first day at Oxford and wrote to his dad, ÃâThe place has surpassed my wildest dreams. I never saw anything so beautiful.Ãâ Finally, we see his joy when he wrote to one of his friends right after his marriage, ÃâItÃâs funny having at 59 the sort of happiness most men have at their twentiesÃ⦠ÃâThou hast kept the good wine till now.ÃâÃâ C.S. Lewis was a very joyful man from whom people could learn a lot.
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