One of these Honourary Inklings is a Dorothy L. So I have followed Regent’s lead–as well as the framework of the Seven Wade authors from the Wheaton archive–in allowing myself to be enriched by what I call the Honourary Inklings. Nevill Coghill has enriched my reading of Chaucer, and Hugo Dyson supplies one of the most quotable and least fully-quoted Inklings quotations that is likely to be apocryphal.Ĭhesterton and MacDonald are among the roots of Tolkien and Lewis’ literary mountains, to use Douglas Anderson’s phrase. Warren Lewis–Jack’s big brother–is a surprisingly clear and thoughtful writer in his diaries and his French histories, like The Splendid Century. I have explored Christopher Tolkien‘s work as a literary scholar and (of course) Middle-earth editor. Before Amazon and print-on-demand gave us access to obscure and out-of-print works, the Regent College press released many of Williams’ novels and plays, as well as his theological study, The Descent of the Dove. Though I had not yet met Owen Barfield at Regent–the First and Last Inkling, and the figure who most continuously enlightens and endarkens my study of Lewis and Tolkien and literary theory–I have no doubt the bookstore had Barfield’s most important work.īesides the Fantastic Four– Lewis, Tolkien, Williams, and Barfield–extending my reading into the larger literary alliance of the Inklings has been valuable to me. However, it also included the philosopher-poet novelist Charles Williams–no doubt because philosopher-poet professor Loren Wilkinson is one of the few folks brave enough to offer an entire graduate-level class on Charles Williams‘ theology. The Bookstore had everything Lewis-related one could imagine, as any local bookstore of its kind would. Chesterton was in that section–and if George MacDonald was not there, he was nearby. It also, I believe, has a somewhat promiscuous definition of the Inklings. The Regent College Bookstore is an admirable species of its kind. Paul’s letters like fictional worlds in my thesis, beginning my real path to becoming a Theologian of Literature, or Literary Theologian, or whatever we might want to call it. Regent was where I had the innocent audacity to treat St. Regent College in Vancouver where I chose to study sacred literature and spiritual theology at a graduate level.
Lewis, I was thrilled to discover an entire shelf dedicated to “The Inklings” at the Regent College Bookstore. Tolkien, and a growing curiosity about C.S. Sayers has fallen into my life–and I into hers–because of my gloriously irresponsible definition of the Inklings.
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