This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis´s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from ´The Literary Impact of the Authorised 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 Lewis´s best critical writing.