“Quotations. I
hadn’t realised that they were so numerous as you apparently found them.”
–– C. S. Lewis on The
Pilgrim’s Regress in a letter to Arthur Greeves, 17 December 1932
An index to public names
in C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
(page numbers)
“Public
names” in C. S. Lewis’s autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955) are all
names which are assumed to have any degree of public currency of their own. “Names”
include titles of published writings and works of musical or pictorial art.
These titles are linked to their authors, except, of course, in the case of
anonymous works.
Several
names, while given in full here, are in fact “hidden” in the book. This means
that they may not be actually found in one or more of the places referred to.
For example, two of the three references to Keats’s Endymion refer to
lines from that poem quoted without mention either of Keats or of Endymion.
References
in bold type indicate items on which some further details are
given on my web page Quotations
and Allusions in Surprised by Joy.
Many of these bold-type figures refer to “hidden” locations.
The present
list refers to page numbers in the book’s
first edition (Geoffrey Bles, London 1955). If you prefer a list with chapter-and-paragraph numbers, click here.
If you wish both page numbers and chapter-and-paragraph numbers, click here.
Corrections and additions are welcome.
Arend Smilde
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Absolute
and Abitofhell (1913) > Knox
Aeneid >
Virgil
Aeschylus
(525–456 bc) 137, 182, 202
Alanus ab
Insulis (Alain de Lille, 1114–1203) 204
Alexander,
Samuel W. (1859–1938), Space, Time and Deity 205, 206
All’s Well
That Ends Well (c. 1600) > Shakespeare
Amulet,
The Story of the - (1906) > Nesbit
‘Anactoria’,
in Poems and Ballads (1866) > Swinburne
The
Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) > Burton
Andersen,
Hans Christian (1805–1875) 145
Anstey, F.
(Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856–1934), Vice Versa 38, 45
Ants, Bees
and Wasps (1882) > Lubbock
Apology
> Plato
Apology
for Smectymnuus (1642) > Milton
Apuleius,
Lucius (c. 125–170) 140
Aristotle
(384–322 bc) 109, 180
Arnold,
Matthew (1822–1888), ‘Sohrab and
Rustum’ 56, 74, ‘Thyrsis’ 175, Essays in Criticism 175, ‘Empedocles on Etna’ 193
Arnold,
Thomas (1795–1882) 54
St.
Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354–430), Confessions 7, 217
Austen,
Jane (1775–1817) 145; Northanger Abbey 191
Bacchae
> Euripides
Bacon,
Francis (1561–1626) 203
Ball, Sir
Robert Stawell (1840–1913) 67
Barfield,
Arthur Owen (1898–1997) 189, 190, 194–197, 201, 212, 221; Poetic Diction
189
Beardsley,
Aubrey (1872–1898) 166
Becker,
Wilhelm Adolf (1796–1846), Charicles 70
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1826) 188
Bekker see Becker
Ben Hur
(1880) > Wallace
Benjamin
Bunny (1904) > Potter
Beowulf
(Old English poem) 128, 140
Bergson,
Henri (1859–1941) 187, 188, 193, 199
Berkeley,
George (1685–1753) 210
Betjeman,
John (1906–1984) 81, 189
Bible 15,
154; Exodus 214; II Kings 154;
Job 215; Psalms 188; Ezekiel 214; Matthew
70, 194; Mark 213; Luke 159, 171, 213, 215;
John 213
The Book
of Common Prayer (1662) 15, 78
Bosanquet,
Bernard (1848–1923) 198
Boswell, James
(1740–1795) 136, 176, 222
Bradley,
Francis Herbert (1846–1924) 198, 210
Bridges,
Robert Seymour (1844–1930), The Testament of Beauty 196
Brontë
sisters 145; Jane Eyre 145
Browne,
Thomas (1605–1682) 202
Browning, Robert (1812–1889), Paracelsus
59 / IV.1, ‘Cleon’ 157
Bunyan,
John (1628–1688), The Pilgrim’s Progress 192
Burke,
Edmund (1729–1797) 43
Burton,
Robert (1577–1640), Anatomy of Melancholy 136
Butler,
Samuel (1835–1902), Erewhon 97
Byron,
George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), Don Juan 203
du Cange, Charles
du Fresne (1610–1688) 204
Caesar,
Gaius Julius (100–44 bc) 137
The
Captain (periodical) 40
Carlyle,
Thomas (1795–1881) 193
Catullus,
Valerius (87–c. 57 bc) 137
Centuries
of Meditations (first published 1908) > Traherne
Chanson de
Roland 203
Charicles,
or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks
(1895, original German edition 1840) > Becker
Chaucer,
Geoffrey (c. 1340–1400), Canterbury
Tales 109, 133
Chénier,
André de (1762–1794) 140
Chesterfield,
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord (1694–1773) 88, 127
Chesterton,
Gilbert Keith (1874–1936) 37, 94, 101, 113, 120, 180, 181, 202; Manalive
113; The Everlasting Man 210, 211, 222
Cicero,
Marcus Tullius (106–43 bc) 43,
137
‘Cleon’ (1855) > Browning
The Cloud
of Unknowing (14th century) 22
Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendall
(1899–1980) 201 / XIV.2–3
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) 13, 192
‘The
Collar’ (1633) > Herbert
Comparetti,
Domenico (1835–1927), Vergil in the Middle Ages 204
Comus
(1637) > Milton
Confessiones
(397–401) > Augustine
Les Confessions
(1782) > Rousseau
A
Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court (1889)
> Twain
Le Contrat
Social (1762) > Rousseau
Corpus
Poeticum Boreale (1883) 112
The Crock
of Gold (1912) > Stephens
Crusius,
Martin (1526–1607), Lexicon barbaro-græcum 134
Dante
Alighieri (1265–1321) 203, 212; Inferno 37, 57, 138, 198
Darkness
and Dawn (1891) > Farrar
Defoe,
Daniel 1660–1731), Robinson Crusoe 187
Demosthenes
(c. 450 bc) 137
De rerum
natura > Lucretius
Dickens,
Charles (1812–1870) 12, 145
Disney,
Walt (1901–1966) 145
La Divina
Commedia (c. 1315)
> Inferno > Dante
Don Juan
(1819–1824) > Byron
Donne,
John (1572–1631) 202
Doyle, Sir
Arthur Conan (1859–1930), Sir Nigel 20
The Dream
of the Rood (Old English poem) 202
Dunbar,
William (c. 1460–c. 1513) 188
Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson
(1896–1975) 147, 204, 212 / X.5, XIV.6, XIV.17
Earle,
John (1601–1665), ‘A Scepticke in
Religion’ 36
The
Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) > Morris
Eckermann,
Johann Peter (1792–1884) 222
Edda
79, 157
‘Empedocles
on Etna’ (1852) > Arnold, Matthew
Endymion
(1818) > Keats
English
Grammar for Beginners (1897) > West
Erewhon
(1872) > Butler
Eros und
Agape (1930–1937) > Nygren
The Essays
of Elia (1823–1833) > Lamb
Euripides
(c. 480–406 bc) 137; Bacchae 111; Hippolytus 205
The
Everlasting Man (1925) > Chesterton
The Faerie
Queene (1596) > Spenser
Farrar,
Frederic William (1831–1903), Darkness and Dawn 40
Fitzgerald,
Edward (1809–1883), The Rubáiyát of 'Omar Khayyám 112
Five
Children – and It (1902) > Nesbit
The
Forsyte Saga (1922) > Galsworthy
Fox, Adam
(1883–1977) 220
Frazer,
Sir James George (1854–1941), The Golden Bough 133, 211
The Free
Man’s Worship (1903) > Russell
Galsworthy,
John (1867–1933), The Forsyte Saga 49
Gawain and
the Green Knight, Sir - (late 14th century) 47, 140, 212
Gibbon,
Edward (1737–1794) 202
The
Gladiators (??) 40
Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832) 188, 222; Faust 138
The Golden
Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
(1890–1915) > Frazer
The Golden
String (1954) > Griffiths
Goldsmith,
Oliver (c. 1728–1774) 101
Green, Thomas
Hill (1836–1882) 198
Griffiths,
Alan Richard (Dom Bede Griffiths, 1906–1993) 212, The Golden String 221
Guerber,
Hélène Adeline (1859–1929), Myths of the Norsemen 79
Gulliver’s
Travels (1726) > Swift
Haggard,
Sir Henry Rider (1856–1925) 40
Hamlet
(c. 1602) > Shakespeare
Hardy,
Thomas (1840–1928) 193
The
Harrovians (1913) > Lunn
Hay, Ian
(John Hay Beith, 1876–1952) 101
Hegel, Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831) 210
Heinrich von
Ofterdingen (1802) > Novalis
Henry IV,
second part (1600) > Shakespeare
Herbert,
George (1593–1633) 202, 212; ‘The
Collar’ 59, 63; ‘Sin’
181
Herodotus
(c. 485–c. 425) 71, 136, 137
Herrick,
Robert (1591–1674) 140
The High
History of the Holy Grail (15th century) 140
Hilton,
Walter (?–1396), The Scale of Perfection 64, 159, 224
Hippolytus
> Euripides
A History
of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne (1912)
> Lang
Homer (c. 800 bc)
56, 82, 137, 185; Iliad 56, 134, 138; Odyssey 138
Hooker,
Richard (1554–1600) 203
Horatius
Flaccus, Quintus (65–8 bc) 134; Odes
111; Ars poetica 201
Iliad
> Homer
‘The
Imagination’s Pride’ (1921) > de la Mare
Inferno
(Divina Commedia I) > Dante
In
Memoriam (1850) > Tennyson
215
Jacobs,
William Wymark (1863–1943) 12
Jane Eyre
(1847) > Brontë sisters
Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde (1886) > Stevenson
The Jew of
Malta (c. 1590)
> Marlowe
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784) 114, 120, 128, 153, 176, 202,
222
Jonson, Ben (1572–1637) 176
Kalevala (1835–1849) > Lönnrot
Kant,
Immanuel (1724–1804) 187
Keats,
John (1795–1821) 12; Endymion 155, 168, 170
Knox, Ronald
(1888–1957), Absolute and Abitofhell 63
Lamb,
Charles (1775–1834), 31; The Essays of Elia 136
Lang,
Andrew (1844–1912), A History of English Literature from Beowulf to
Swinburne 136
Langland,
William (1331–1400) 202
Laxdale
Saga 140
Lexicon
barbaro-græcum > Crusius
The Life
and Death of Jason (1867) > Morris
Lockhart,
John Gibson (1794–1854), Life of Scott 123, 222
‘Locksley
Hall’ (1842) > Tennyson
Lohengrin
(1850) > Wagner
Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882), ‘The
Saga of King Olaf’ 23; ‘Tegnér’s Drapa’ 23, 74
Lönnrot,
Elias (1802–1884), Kalevala 31, 140
‘The
Lotos-Eaters’ (1832) > Tennyson
Lucretius
Carus, Titus (98–55 bc) 137, 163;
De rerum natura 67, 162
‘Lucretius’
(1868) > Tennyson
Lunn, Sir
Arnold Henry Moore (1888–1974), The Harrovians 89
McCabe,
Joseph Martin (1867–1955) 133
MacDonald,
George (1824–1905) 181, 202, 212, 213; Phantastes 169–171, 178; Unspoken
Sermons 201.
Macrobius
(c. 400 A.D.) 204
Maeterlinck,
Maurice (1862–1949) 165
Mallet,
Paul Henri (1730–1807), Northern Antiquities 79
Malory, Sir
Thomas (c. 1400–1471), Le Morte
Darthur 139, 140, 169, 188
Manalive
(1912) > Chesterton
Mandeville,
Sir John de > Travels
Mare,
Walter de la (1873–1956), ‘The Imagination’s Pride’ 192
Marlowe,
Christopher (1564–1593) Tamburlaine the Great, 59; The Jew of Malta
150
Martialis,
Marcus Valerius (c. 40–c. 104) 43
Meredith,
George (1828–1909) 12
Mill, John
Stuart (1806–1873) 202
Milton,
John (1608–1674) 112, 140, 163, 202; Apology for Smectymnuus 111;Paradise
Lost 11, 22, 103, 109; Comus 34, 148
Mitchison,
Naomi (1897–1999) 103
Modern
Painters IV (1856) > Ruskin
Montaigne,
Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592) 173
Morris,
William (1834–1896) 102, 138, 140, 155, 156, 161, 164, 169, 188; Sigurd the Volsung 155; The
Well at the World’s End 155; The Life and Death of Jason 156; The
Earthly Paradise 156, 165
‘Morte
d’Arthur’ (1842) > Tennyson
‘Muiopotmos’
(1592) > Spenser
Murray,
George Gilbert Ayme (1866–1957) 196
Myths and
Legends of the Teutonic Race > Rolleston
Myths of
the Norsemen (1908) > Guerber
Nesbit,
Edith (1858–1924), Five Children – and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet,
The Amulet 21
The
Newcomes (1853) > Thackeray
Northanger
Abbey (1818) > Austen
Northern
Antiquities (1770) > Mallet
Novalis
(Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801), Heinrich von Ofterdingen 14
Nygren,
Anders (1890–1977), Eros und Agape 198
‘Ode.
Intimations of Immortality’ (1807) > Wordsworth
Odyssey
> Homer
Odyssey
(1726) > Pope
Othello
(c. 1604) > Shakespeare
Paradise
Lost (1667) > Milton
Parsifal
(1882) > Wagner
Pascal, Blaise
(1623–1662) 203
Paul
(Apostle) 63
Pearl
115
Per Amica
Silentia Lunae (1917) > Yeats
Peter
Rabbit (1902) > Potter
Phantastes
(1858) > MacDonald
Phineas
Phinn (1869) > Trollope
The
Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) > Nesbit
The
Pilgrim’s Progress (1678–1684) > Bunyan
Plato
(427–347 bc) 108, 202, 203, 212,
222; Apology 182
Poetic
Diction (1928) > Barfield
Pope,
Alexander (1688–1744), Odyssey 75
Potter,
Beatrix (1866–1943) 21; Squirrel Nutkin 22; Peter Rabbit 40; Benjamin
Bunny 82
Powicke,
Sir Maurice (1879–1963) 138
The
Prelude (1850) > Wordsworth
Punch
(periodical) 21
Quo Vadis
(1896) > Sienkiewicz
Rackham,
Arthur (1867–1939) 57, 74, 77
Rheingold
> Rhinegold > Wagner
The
Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
> Wagner
Der Ring des
Nibelungen (1876) > Wagner
Robinson
Crusoe (1719) 187
Rolleston,
T. W. (1857–1920), Myths and Legends of the Teutonic Race 79
Ronsard,
Pierre de (1524–1585) 140
Rosa
Alchemica (1897) > Yeats
Rousseau,
Jean-Jacques (1712–1778), Les Confessions 7, 176, Le Contrat Social
176
The Rubáiyát
of ‘Omar Khayyám (1859) > Fitzgerald
Ruskin,
John (1819–1900) 164; Modern Painters 146
Russell,
Bertrand Arthur William, Lord (1872–1970), A Free Man’s Worship 193, 197
‘The Saga
of King Olaf’, in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863) > Longfellow
Saki (H.
H. Munro, 1870–1916) 68
Santayana,
George (1863–1952) 162
The Scale
of Perfection (1494) > Hilton
‘A
Scepticke in Religion’, in Microcosmographie (1628) > Earle
Schopenhauer,
Arthur (1788–1860) 133, 176, 193
Scott, Sir
Walter (1771–1832) 123, 222; Waverley novels 145
Shakespeare,
William (1564–1616) 118; Othello 12; The Tempest 21; All’s
Well That Ends Well 93; Henry IV, second part 187; Hamlet
190, 210
Shaw,
George Bernard (1856–1950) 101, 102, 162, 164, 202; John Bull’s Other
Island 102
Shelley,
Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 12; The Triumph of Life 188
Sidney,
Sir Philip (1554–1586), Arcadia 140
Siegfried
(1857) > Wagner
Siegfried
and The Twilight of the Gods (1911) > Wagner
Sienkiewicz,
Henryk (1846–1916), Quo Vadis 40
Sigurd the
Volsung and The Fall of the Nibelungs, The Story of -
(1876) > Morris
‘Sin’ (1633)
> Herbert
‘Sir
Aldingar’ (1765) 157
Sir Nigel
(1906) > Doyle
Socrates
(469–399 bc) 222
‘Sohrab
and Rustum’ (1853) > Arnold
Song of
Songs 41
Sophocles
(497–406 bc) 137
Space,
Time and Deity (1920) > Alexander
Spenser,
Edmund (1522–1599) 110, 140, 169, 202; ‘Muiopotmos’ 19; The Faerie
Queene 139, 143, 165
Spinoza,
Baruch de (1632–1677) 198
Squirrel
Nutkin (1903) > Potter
Steiner,
Rudolf (1861–1925) 194
Stephens,
James (1882–1950), The Crock of Gold 111
Sterne,
Laurence (1713–1768), Tristram Shandy 117, 136
Stevenson,
Robert Louis (1850–1894), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 115
Sullivan,
Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900) 76
‘Surprised
by Joy’ (1815) > Wordsworth
Swift,
Jonathan (1667–1745), Gulliver’s Travels 21
Swinburne,
Algernon Charles (1837–1909), ‘Anactoria’ 166
Tacitus,
Cornelius (c. 55–120) 137, 170
Taliessin
through Logres (1938) > Williams
Tamburlaine
the Great (c.
1587) > Marlowe
‘Tegnér’s
Drapa’, in The Seaside and the Fireside (1849) > Longfellow
The Tempest
(c. 1611) > Shakespeare
Tenniel,
Sir John (1820–1914) 21
Tennyson,
Alfred, Lord (1809–1892), In Memoriam A.H.H., ‘Locksley Hall’, ‘The
Lotos-Eaters’, ‘Morte d’Arthur’ 13; ‘Lucretius’ 137
The
Testament of Beauty (1929) > Bridges
Thackeray,
William Makepeace (1811–1863), The Newcomes 145
Times
Educational Supplement 29
Tiziano
Vecellio (c. 1490–1576) 188
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
(1892–1973) 138, 204, 212 / IX.21, XIV.6, XIV.17
Tolstoj,
Lev 12
Traherne,
Thomas (1637–1674) 22; Centuries of Meditations 73
The
Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1375) 140
Tristram
Shandy, The Life and Opinions of - (1760–1767) > Sterne
Trollope,
Anthony (1815–1882) 19, Phineas Phinn 12
Twain,
Mark (1835–1910), A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court 20
Unspoken
Sermons > MacDonald
Vergil in
the Middle Ages (1872, 1895) > Comparetti
Vice
Versa: or a Lesson to Fathers (1882) > Anstey
Virgil
(Publius Vergilius Maro, 70–19 bc)
137, 144, 202; Aeneid 111, 128
Voltaire
(François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778) 140, 162, 202
Wagner, Richard
(1813–1883) 102, 156, 157; Der Ring des Nibelungen 75, 76, 158; Lohengrin
76; Parsifal 76; The Rhinegold
& the Valkyrie (= Ring, vols. 1
& 2, translation by Margaret Armour with illustrations by Arthur Rackham),
158; Siegfried 214; Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods (= Ring,
vols. 3 & 4, Armour/Rackham edition) 74, 75, 77
Walton,
Izaak (1593–1683) 140
Walküre > Valkyrie > Wagner
Wallace,
Lewis (1827–1905), Ben Hur 40
Webster,
John (c. 1580–c. 1634) 85
The Well
at the World’s End (1896) > Morris
Wells,
Herbert George (1866–1946) 40, 48, 67, 202
West,
Alfred S. (18..–19..), English Grammar for Beginners 39
Williams,
Charles (1886–1945), Taliessin through Logres 74
Wilde,
Oscar (1854–1900) 166
Wodehouse,
Pelham Granville (1881–1975) 68
Wordsworth,
William (770–1850) 3, 22, 224; ‘Surprised by Joy’ 3; The
Prelude 158, 179, 191; ‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality’ 157
Wren, Sir
Christopher (1632–1723) 188
Yeats,
William Butler (1865–1939) 112, 169, 188; Rosa Alchemica 165; Per
Amica Silentia Lunae 165
Yonge,
Charlotte Mary (1823–1901) 138