“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
(chapter-and-paragraph 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 chapter and paragraph numbers, so that it can (presumably) be
used with any edition. Abbreviations: Pr
= Preface, Ep = Epigraph. If you
prefer a list with page
numbers for the book’s first edition, 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) IX.20, XII.14, XIV.3
Alanus ab
Insulis (Alain de Lille, 1114–1203)
XIV.6
Alexander,
Samuel W. (1859–1938), Space, Time and Deity XIV.9, XIV.10
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) X.3
Anstey, F.
(Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856–1934), Vice Versa II.12, II.19
Ants, Bees
and Wasps (1882) > Lubbock
Apology
> Plato
Apology for
Smectymnuus (1642) > Milton
Apuleius,
Lucius (c. 125–170) IX.23
Aristotle
(384–322 bc) VII.13, XII.12
Arnold,
Matthew (1822–1888), ‘Sohrab and
Rustum’ III.12, V.2; ‘Thyrsis’ XII.3; Essays in Criticism XII.3; ‘Empedocles on Etna’ XIII.11
Arnold,
Thomas (1795–1882) III.10
St.
Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, 354–430), Confessions Pr.2, XV.Ep
Austen,
Jane (1775–1817) X.3; Northanger Abbey XIII.7
Bacchae
> Euripides
Bacon,
Francis (1561–1626) XIV.4
Ball, Sir
Robert Stawell (1840–1913) IV.11
Barfield, Arthur
Owen (1898–1997) XIII.4–5, XIII.13–17, XIV.1–2, XIV.17, XV.7; Poetic Diction
XIII.4
Beardsley,
Aubrey (1872–1898) XI.12
Becker,
Wilhelm Adolf (1796–1846), Charicles IV.17
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1826) XIII.1
Bekker see Becker
Ben Hur
(1880) > Wallace
Benjamin
Bunny (1904) > Potter
Beowulf
(Old English poem) IX.3, IX.23
Bergson,
Henri (1859–1941) XIII.1, XIII.11, XIII.20
Berkeley,
George (1685–1753) XIV.14
Betjeman,
John (1906–1984) V.13, XIII.3
Bible I.5,
X.15; Exodus XIV.20; II Kings
X.15; Job XIV.23; Psalms XIII.1; Ezekiel XIV.20; Matthew
IV.17, XIII.14; Mark XIV.19 ; Luke XI.3, XI.18; XIV.19, XIV.23; John XIV.19
The Book
of Common Prayer (1662) I.5, V.9
Bosanquet,
Bernard (1848–1923) XIII.18
Boswell,
James (1740–1795) IX.18, XII.4, XV.7
Bradley,
Francis Herbert (1846–1924) XIII.18, XIV.14
Bridges,
Robert Seymour (1844–1930), The Testament of Beauty XIII.17
Brontë
sisters X.3; Jane Eyre X.3
Browne,
Thomas (1605–1682) XIV.4
Browning, Robert (1812–1889), Paracelsus
59 / IV.1, ‘Cleon’ XI.1
Bunyan, John
(1628–1688), The Pilgrim’s Progress XIII.10
Burke,
Edmund (1729–1797) II.17
Burton,
Robert (1577–1640), Anatomy of Melancholy IX.18
Butler,
Samuel (1835–1902), Erewhon VI.21
Byron, George
Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), Don Juan XIV.4
du Cange, Charles
du Fresne (1610–1688) XIV.6
Caesar,
Gaius Julius (100–44 bc) IX.20
The
Captain (periodical) II.15
Carlyle,
Thomas (1795–1881) XIII.11
Catullus,
Valerius (87–c. 57 bc) IX.20
Centuries
of Meditations (first published 1908) > Traherne
Chanson de
Roland XIV.4
Charicles,
or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks
(1895, original German edition 1840) > Becker
Chaucer,
Geoffrey (c. 1340–1400), Canterbury
Tales VII.15, IX.13
Chénier,
André de (1762–1794) IX.23
Chesterfield,
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord (1694–1773) VI.7, IX.Ep
Chesterton,
Gilbert Keith (1874–1936) II.11, VI.16, VII.3, VII.21, VIII.7,
XII.12–13, XIV.3; Manalive VII.21; The Everlasting Man XIV.15,
XV.7
Cicero,
Marcus Tullius (106–43 bc) II.17,
IX.20
‘Cleon’ (1855) > Browning
The Cloud
of Unknowing (14th century) I.15
Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendall
(1899–1980) 201 / XIV.2–3
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) I.2, XIII.10
‘The
Collar’ (1633) > Herbert
Comparetti,
Domenico (1835–1927), Vergil in the Middle Ages XIV.6
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) VII.18
The Crock
of Gold (1912) > Stephens
Crusius,
Martin (1526–1607), Lexicon barbaro-græcum IX.17
Dante
Alighieri (1265–1321) XIV.5, XIV.17; Inferno II.10, III.12,
IX.20, XIII.19
Darkness
and Dawn (1891) > Farrar
Defoe,
Daniel 1660–1731), Robinson Crusoe XIII.Ep
Demosthenes (c. 450 bc)
IX.20
De rerum
natura > Lucretius
Dickens,
Charles (1812–1870) I.2, X.3
Disney, Walt
(1901–1966) X.3
La Divina
Commedia (c. 1315) >
Inferno > Dante
Don Juan
(1819–1824) > Byron
Donne, John
(1572–1631) XIV.4
Doyle, Sir
Arthur Conan (1859–1930), Sir Nigel I.13
The Dream
of the Rood (Old English poem) XIV.4
Dunbar,
William (c. 1460–c. 1513) XIII.1
Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson
(1896–1975) 147, 204, 212 / X.5, XIV.6, XIV.17
Earle,
John (1601–1665), ‘A Scepticke in
Religion’ II.10
The
Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) > Morris
Eckermann,
Johann Peter (1792–1884) XV.7
Edda
V.11, XI.1
‘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 / IX.20; Bacchae VII.17; Hippolytus
XIV.8
The
Everlasting Man (1925) > Chesterton
The Faerie
Queene (1596) > Spenser
Farrar,
Frederic William (1831–1903), Darkness and Dawn II.15
Fitzgerald,
Edward (1809–1883), The Rubáiyát of ‘Omar Khayyám VII.18
Five
Children – and It (1902) > Nesbit
The
Forsyte Saga (1922) > Galsworthy
Fox, Adam
(1883–1977) 220 / XV.6
Frazer,
Sir James George (1854–1941), The Golden Bough IX.15, XIV.15
The Free
Man’s Worship (1903) > Russell
Galsworthy,
John (1867–1933), The Forsyte Saga III.3
Gawain and
the Green Knight, Sir - (late 14th century) III.Ep, IX.23, XIV.17
Gibbon,
Edward (1737–1794) XIV.3
The
Gladiators (??)II.15
Goethe,
Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832) XIII.1, XV.7; Faust IX.20
The Golden
Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
(1890–1915) > Frazer
The Golden
String (1954) > Griffiths
Goldsmith,
Oliver (c. 1728–1774) VII.Ep
Green,
Thomas Hill (1836–1882) XIII.18
Griffiths,
Alan Richard (Dom Bede Griffiths, 1906–1993) XIV.17; The Golden String XV.7
Guerber,
Hélène Adeline (1859–1929), Myths of the Norsemen V.11
Gulliver’s
Travels (1726) > Swift
Haggard,
Sir Henry Rider (1856–1925) II.15
Hamlet
(c. 1602) > Shakespeare
Hardy,
Thomas (1840–1928) XIII.11
The
Harrovians (1913) > Lunn
Hay, Ian
(John Hay Beith, 1876–1952) VII.3
Hegel, Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831) XIV.14
Heinrich
von Ofterdingen (1802) > Novalis
Henry IV,
second part (1600) > Shakespeare
Herbert,
George (1593–1633) XIV.4, XIV.17; ‘The
Collar’ IV.Ep, IV.7; ‘Sin’
XII.13
Herodotus (c. 485–c. 425) IV.19, IX.18, IX.20
Herrick,
Robert (1591–1674) IX.23
The High
History of the Holy Grail (15th century) IX.23
Hilton,
Walter (?–1396), The Scale of Perfection IV.8, XI.4, XV.10
Hippolytus
> Euripides
A History
of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne (1912)
> Lang
Homer (c. 800 bc)
III.12, V.15, IX.20, XII.17; Iliad III.12, IX.17, IX.21; Odyssey
IX.21
Hooker,
Richard (1554–1600) XIV. 5
Horatius
Flaccus, Quintus (65–8 bc) IX.17;
Odes VII.17; Ars poetica XIV.2
Iliad
> Homer
‘The
Imagination’s Pride’ (1921) > de la Mare
Inferno
(Divina Commedia I) > Dante
In
Memoriam (1850) > Tennyson
Jacobs,
William Wymark (1863–1943) I.2
Jane Eyre
(1847) > Brontë sisters
Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde (1886) > Stevenson
Jenkin,
Alfred Kenneth Hamilton (1900–1980) XIII.3, XIII.17, XV.6
The Jew of
Malta (c. 1590)
> Marlowe
Johnson,
Samuel (1709–1784) VII.21, VIII.7, IX.3, X.15, XII.4, XIV.3, XV.7
Jonson, Ben (1572–1637) 176 / XII. 4
Kalevala (1835–1849) > Lönnrot
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804) XIII.1
Keats,
John (1795–1821) 12 / I.2; Endymion X.17, XI.15, XI.18
Knox,
Ronald (1888–1957), Absolute and Abitofhell IV.6
Lamb,
Charles (1775–1834), II.4; The Essays of Elia IX.18
Lang,
Andrew (1844–1912), A History of English Literature from Beowulf to
Swinburne IX.18
Langland,
William (1331–1400) XIV.4
Laxdale
Saga IX.23
Lexicon
barbaro-græcum > Crusius
The Life
and Death of Jason (1867) > Morris
Lockhart,
John Gibson (1794–1854), Life of Scott VIII.10, XV.7
‘Locksley
Hall’ (1842) > Tennyson
Lohengrin
(1850) > Wagner
Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882), ‘The
Saga of King Olaf’ I.17; ‘Tegnér’s Drapa’ I.17, V.4
Lönnrot,
Elias (1802–1884), Kalevala II.3, IX.23
‘The
Lotos-Eaters’ (1832) > Tennyson
Lucretius
Carus, Titus (98–55 bc) IX.20,
XI.8; De rerum natura IV.11, XI.7
‘Lucretius’
(1868) > Tennyson
Lunn, Sir
Arnold Henry Moore (1888–1974), The Harrovians VI.9
McCabe,
Joseph Martin (1867–1955) IX.15
MacDonald,
George (1824–1905) XII.13, XIV.3, XIV.17–18; Phantastes XI.17–18, XII.10;
Unspoken Sermons XIV.Ep
Macrobius
(c. 400 A.D.) XIV.6
Maeterlinck,
Maurice (1862–1949) XI.11
Mallet,
Paul Henri (1730–1807), Northern Antiquities V.11
Malory,
Sir Thomas (c. 1400–1471), Le
Morte Darthur IX.22–23, XI.18, XIII.1
Manalive
(1912) > Chesterton
Mandeville,
Sir John de > Travels
Mare,
Walter de la (1873–1956), ‘The Imagination’s Pride’ XIII.9
Marlowe,
Christopher (1564–1593) Tamburlaine the Great, IV.1; The Jew of Malta
X.9
Martialis,
Marcus Valerius (c. 40–c. 104) II.17
Meredith, George
(1828–1909) I.2
Mill, John
Stuart (1806–1873) XIV.3
Milton,
John (1608–1674) VII.18, IX.23, XI.7, XIV.3; Apology for Smectymnuus VII.16;Paradise
Lost I.Ep, I.15, VII.4, VII.109; Comus II.8,
X.6
Mitchison,
Naomi (1897–1999) VII.4
Modern
Painters IV (1856) > Ruskin
Montaigne,
Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592) XII.Ep
Morris,
William (1834–1896) VII.3, IX.21, IX.23, X.17, XI.5, XI.9, XI.18, XIII.1; Sigurd
the Volsung X.17; The Well at the World’s End X.17; The Life and
Death of Jason X.17; The Earthly Paradise X.17, XI.11
Morte Darthur >
Malory
‘Morte
d’Arthur’ (1842) > Tennyson
‘Muiopotmos’
(1592) > Spenser
Murray,
George Gilbert Ayme (1866–1957) XIII.17
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 I.13
The
Newcomes (1853) > Thackeray
Northanger
Abbey (1818) > Austen
Northern
Antiquities (1770) > Mallet
Novalis
(Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801), Heinrich von Ofterdingen I.4
Nygren,
Anders (1890–1977), Eros und Agape XIII.18
‘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) XIV.5
Paul
(Apostle) IV.7
Pearl
115 / VIII.Ep
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) VII.12, XIV.3,
XIV.5, XIV17, XV.7; Apology XII.14
Poetic
Diction (1928) > Barfield
Pope,
Alexander (1688–1744), Odyssey (1725–1726) V.5
Potter,
Beatrix (1866–1943) I.13; Squirrel Nutkin I.16; Peter Rabbit
II.15; Benjamin Bunny V.14
Powicke,
Sir Maurice (1879–1963) IX.21
The
Prelude (1850) > Wordsworth
Punch
(periodical) I.13
Quo Vadis
(1896) > Sienkiewicz
Rackham,
Arthur (1867–1939) III.13, V.4, V.7
Rheingold
> Rhinegold > Wagner
The
Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1910)
> Wagner
Der Ring des
Nibelungen (1876) > Wagner
Robinson
Crusoe (1719) > Defoe
Rolleston,
T. W. (1857–1920), Myths and Legends of the Teutonic Race V.11
Ronsard,
Pierre de (1524–1585) IX.23
Rosa
Alchemica (1897) > Yeats
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
(1712–1778), Les Confessions Pr.2, XII.4; Le Contrat Social XII.4
The
Rubáiyát of ‘Omar Khayyám (1859) > Fitzgerald
Ruskin,
John (1819–1900) X.9; Modern Painters X.4
Russell,
Bertrand Arthur William, Lord (1872–1970), A Free Man’s Worship XIII.11,
XIII.17
‘The Saga
of King Olaf’, in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863) > Longfellow
Saki (H.
H. Munro, 1870–1916) IV.13
Santayana,
George (1863–1952) XI.6
The Scale
of Perfection (1494) > Hilton
‘A
Scepticke in Religion’, in Microcosmographie (1628) > Earle
Schopenhauer,
Arthur (1788–1860) IX.15, XII.4, XIII.11
Scott, Sir
Walter (1771–1832) VIII.10, XV.7; Waverley novels X.3
Shakespeare,
William (1564–1616) VIII.4, XIV.14; Othello I.2; The Tempest I.13;
All’s Well That Ends Well VI.15; Henry IV, second part XIII.1;
Hamlet XIII.5, XV.8
Shaw,
George Bernard (1856–1950) VII.3, XI.7, XI.9, XIV.3; John Bull’s Other
Island VII.3
Shelley,
Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) I.2; The Triumph of Life XIII.1
Sidney,
Sir Philip (1554–1586), Arcadia IX.23
Siegfried
(1857) > Wagner
Siegfried
and the Twilight of the Gods (1911) > Wagner
Sienkiewicz,
Henryk (1846–1916), Quo Vadis II.15
Sigurd the
Volsung and The Fall of the Nibelungs, The Story of -
(1876) > Morris
‘Sin’ (1633)
> Herbert
‘Sir
Aldingar’ (1765) XI.Ep
Sir Nigel
(1906) > Doyle
Socrates
(469–399 bc) XV.7
‘Sohrab
and Rustum’ (1853) > Arnold
Song of
Songs 41 / 16
Sophocles
(497–406 bc) IX.20
Space,
Time and Deity (1920) > Alexander
Spenser,
Edmund (1522–1599) VII.15, IX.23, XI.18, XIV.3; ‘Muiopotmos’ I.12; The
Faerie Queene 139, IX.22, X.Ep, XI.11
Spinoza,
Baruch de (1632–1677) XIII.19
Squirrel
Nutkin (1903) > Potter
Steiner,
Rudolf (1861–1925) XIII.14
Stephens,
James (1882–1950), The Crock of Gold VII.17
Sterne,
Laurence (1713–1768), Tristram Shandy VIII.4, IX.18
Stevenson,
Robert Louis (1850–1894), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde VIII.1
Sullivan,
Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900) V.6
‘Surprised
by Joy’ (1815) > Wordsworth
Swift,
Jonathan (1667–1745), Gulliver’s Travels I.13
Swinburne,
Algernon Charles (1837–1909), ‘Anactoria’ XI.12
Tacitus,
Cornelius (c. 55–120) IX.20, XI.18
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) I.13
Tennyson,
Alfred, Lord (1809–1892), In Memoriam A.H.H., ‘Locksley Hall’, ‘The
Lotos-Eaters’, ‘Morte d’Arthur’ I.2; ‘Lucretius’ IX.19
The
Testament of Beauty (1929) > Bridges
Thackeray,
William Makepeace (1811–1863), The Newcomes X.3
Times
Educational Supplement 24 / II.Ep
Tiziano
Vecellio (c. 1490–1576) XIII.1
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
(1892–1973) 138, 204, 212 / IX.21, XIV.6, XIV.17
Tolstoj,
Lev I.2
Traherne,
Thomas (1637–1674) I.14; Centuries of Meditations V.Ep
The Travels
of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1375) IX.23
Tristram
Shandy, The Life and Opinions of - (1760–1767) > Sterne
Trollope,
Anthony (1815–1882) 19 / I.12; Phineas Phinn I.2
Twain,
Mark (1835–1910), A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court 20 / I.13
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)
IX.20, XIV.3; Aeneid VII.17, IX.3, X.2
Voltaire
(François Marie Arouet, 1694–1778) IX.23, XI.7, XIV.3
Wagner,
Richard (1813–1883) VII.3, X.17, XI.1; Der Ring des Nibelungen V.5–6,
XI.2; Lohengrin V.6; Parsifal V.6; Siegfried XIV.21; The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (= Ring,
vols. 1 & 2, translation by Margaret Armour
with illustrations by Arthur Rackham), XI.2; Siegfried
& the Twilight of the Gods (= Ring, vols. 3
& 4, Armour/Rackham edition) V.4–5, V.7
Walton,
Izaak (1593–1683) IX.23
Walküre > Valkyrie >
Wagner
Wallace,
Lewis (1827–1905), Ben Hur II.15
Webster,
John (c. 1580–c. 1634) VI.Ep
The Well
at the World’s End (1896) > Morris
Wells,
Herbert George (1866–1946) II.15, III.1, IV.11, XIV.3
West,
Alfred S. (18..–19..), English Grammar for Beginners II.15
Williams,
Charles (1886–1945), Taliessin through Logres V.3
Wilde, Oscar
(1854–1900) XI.12
Wodehouse,
Pelham Granville (1881–1975) IV.68
Wordsworth,
William (770–1850) Title page, I.14, XV.10; ‘Surprised by Joy’ Title
page; The Prelude XI.2, XII.11, XIII.8; ‘Ode. Intimations
of Immortality’ XI.1
Wren, Sir Christopher
(1632–1723) XIII.1
Yeats,
William Butler (1865–1939) VII.18, XI.18, XIII.1; Rosa Alchemica XI.11; Per
Amica Silentia Lunae XI.11
Yonge,
Charlotte Mary (1823–1901) IX.21