This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewiss most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version to Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism, from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewiss best critical writing