SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review

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Volume 1

A Tribute to Clyde S Kilby − Donald R Mitchell
Foreword − Owen Barfield
'If You Would But Write Novels, Mr MacDonald' − Rolland Hein
In Search of the Essential Chesterton − Ian Boyd
Tolkien as Philologist − David Lyle Jeffrey
Charles Williams and his Arthurian Poetry − Alice Mary Hadfield
Like Aesop's Bat − Barbara Reynolds and Dorothy L Sayers
C S Lewis's Dymer − George Sayer
The Concept of Revelation − Owen Barfield

Volume 2

The Emperor Clothed and in his Right Mind? − Richard Webster
The Nature of Meaning − Owen Barfield
The Abyss of His Mother-Tongue: Scotch Dialect in Novels by George MacDonald − Roderick McGillis
The Everlasting Man: G K Chesterton's Answer to H G Wells − John Sullivan
C S Lewis: Critic, Creator and Cult Figure − Chad Walsh
Dorothy L Sayers and the Other Type of Mystery − John R Elliott, Jr
Types of Christian Drama: With Some Notes on Production − Dorothy L Sayers
The Diagrammatised Glory of Williams's Taliessin − Joe McClatchey

Volume 3

What Happened to Dorothy L Sayers that Good Friday? − E L Mascall
The Emperor's Clothes Invisible? An Open Letter to Richard Webster − Kathleen Nott
The Dogma in the Manger (1954) − Dorothy L Sayers
Notes Towards a Reply (1982) − Kathleen Nott
Meaning and The Mind of the Maker − D J taylor
George MacDonald and the World of Faery − Marion Lochhead
G K Chesterton and the Myth-Making Power − Leo A Hetzler
Known in a Different Kind: A COmment on the Literary Criticism of Charles Williams − Brian Horne
The Dialectic of Multiple Worlds: An Analysis of C S Lewis's Narnia Stories − Michael Murrin
The Quality of Thinking: Owen Barfield as Literary Man and Anthroposophist − Patrick Grant

Volume 4

A Note on Scientific and Theological Enterprises − A R Peacocke
What is Truth? An Open Letter to Kathleen Nott − D J Taylor
C S Lewis on the Desolation of Devalued Science − Bruce R Reichenbach
Goerge MacDonald and Dreams of the Other World − David Holbrook
The Symbolism of the Key in Chesterton's Work − Christiane d'Haussey
Chesterton and Tolkien: the Road to Middle-Earth − Thomas M Egan
Charles Williams and Arthur Edward Waite − Elisabeth Brewer
Charles Williams's Christmas Novel: The Greater Trumps − Charles Huttar
Seeing and Knowing: The Epistemology of C S Lewis's Till We Have Faces − Peter J Schakel
Gaudy Night: An Investigation of Truth − Donald G Marshall

Volume 5

Tribute to John Sullivan KSG − Aidan Mackey
The Psychology of the Self in MacDonald's Phantastes − Max Keith Sutton
World's Apart: the Importance of Double Vision for MacDonald Criticism − Kathy Triggs
Postscript: A Reply − David Holbrook
Charles Williams and Thomas Cranmer at Canterbury − James G Dixon
Tolkien's Platonic Fantasy − John Cox
The Detective Fiction of Dorothy L Sayers: a Source for the Social Historian? − Philip L Scowcroft
Jack the Giant-Killer − A D Nuttall
C S Lewis and T D Weldon − Martin Moynihan

Volume 6 (out of print)

The Latin Letters of C S Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria − Martin Moynihan
The Defiant Lyricism of Owen Barfield − Thomas Kranidas
The Fiction of George MacDonald − David S Robb
Dorothy L Sayers: Critic of Detective Fiction − Ralph E Hone
An Introduction to Charles Williams's Incarnationalism and the Taliessin Poetry − John-Manuel Andriote
The Silmarillion and the Rise of Evil: the Birth Pains of Middle-Earth − Thomas M Egan
Review Article: 'I Wrote It Just For Fun' − Barbara Reynolds

Volume 7 (out of print)

George MacDonald: A Portrait from His Letters − Rolland Hein
Being Somebody Else: Smith's 'Sympathy' and Chesterton's 'Secret' − Norbert Waszek
Provocative Generalisations: The Allegory of Love in Retrospect − Margaret P Hannay
The Polemic Image: The Role of Metaphor and Symbol in the Fiction of C S Lewis − Kath Filmer
Appeasing the Gods in C S Lewis's Till We Have Faces − Peter W Macky
Tolkien's Concept of Philology as Mythology − J S Ryan
Dorothy L Sayers and the Proper Work of the Playwright − George Ralph
Playwrights Are Not Evangelists − Dorothy L Sayers
Writing a Local Play − Dorothy L Sayers
Review Article: Scientism and the Flight from reality − Geoffrey Price
Review Article: Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc − Aidan Mackey

Volume 8

A Tribute to Clyde S Kilby − Beatrice Batson
George MacDonald and Animal Magnetism − David S Robb
Malaise at the Heart of The Flying Inn − John Coates
Christian Existentialism in the Early Poetry of Charles Williams − Diane edwards
Sauron as Gorgon and Basilisk − Gwyneth E Hood
Fiction in A Grief Observed − George Musacchio
Dorothy L Sayers and the Truth about Lucan − Brian G Marsden
Review Article: Charles Williams as Natural and Preternatural − Stephen Medcalf

Volume 9

The Centenary Year of Charles Williams − Charles A Huttar
Inklings in Germany − Christopher Dean
A Visit to Beatrice − Owen Barfield
Entering the Vision: A Novelist's View of Phantastes − Sylvia Bruce
'La Trahison des Clercs' in Chesterton's Parables for Social Reformers − Denis J Conlon
Spectres of T S Eliot's City in the Novels of Charles Williams − Donald G Kessee
Mid-Century Perceptions of the Ancient Celtic Peoples of England − J S Ryan
Echoes in Age from the World of J R R Tolkien − E L Edmonds
A Dorothy L Sayers Crime Play Rediscovered − Philip L Scowcroft
C S Lewis on Rationalism (Unpublished Notes) − Patience Fetherston
'Knowledge' in C S Lewis's Post-Conversion Thought: His Epistemological Method − Stephen Thorson
Review Article: Abridgement: Profit and Loss in Modernising George MacDonald − William H Burnside
Review Article: Despatches from the Battlefield − John Coates

Volume 10: Sayers Centenary Issue

Foreword − Dorothy L Sayers
The Centenary Year − Christopher Dean
Dorothy L Sayers: Her Novels Today − P D James
University Detective Fiction Then and Now: Dorothy L Sayers's Gaudy Night and Amanda Cross's Death in a Tenured Position − Thomas Michael Stein
From Poetaster to Poet: One Aspect of the Development of Lord Peter Wimsey − Ralph E Hone
Dorothy L Sayers and Music: Musicienne Malgré Elle − William Phemister
The Greatest Story, or from mystery to Mystery − John Thurmer
Dorothy L Sayers and Dante's Beatrice − Ann Loades
Temptation at Canterbury: T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Dorothy L Sayers's The Zeal of Thy House − Manfred Siebald
An Almost Perfect Match: Dorothy L Sayers on Cricket − Andrew Lewis

Volume 11

Feature Article: Shadowlands Observed
Charles Williams and the Arthurian Tradition − Joe H McClatchey
Diamond and Kilmeny: MacDonald, Hogg and the Scottish Folk Tradition − William Raeper
'BARSPECS': Owen Barfield's Vision − Shirley Sugerman
Studies of the Faces of Man"; "Man − G K Chesterton
Personal Memories of a Lewis Scholar in Japan − Peter Milward

Volume 12

Wade Center 30th Anniversary − Christopher W Mitchell
Lilith Centenary Reviews
Lilith: A Dark Labyrinth Towards the Light − Giorgio Spina
Worship in the Anglican Church − Dorothy L Sayers
Under the Mercy: An Introduction to Charles Williams − Nancy E Topolewski
'Making the Poor Beast of Dull Things': C S Lewis as Poet − Don W King
The Image in the Mirror: Americans in Wimsey's Acquaintance − Petra-Angela Wacker
Review Article: The History of Middle Earth − Wayne G Hammond and Christina Scull

Volume 13

G K Chesterton: Myth, Paradox, and the Commonplace − Rolland Hein
The Day Boy and the Night Girl − Adrian Gunther
Higher Dimensions: C S Lewis and Mathematics − David L Neuhouser
Fantasy Set to Music: Donald Swann, C S Lewis, and J R R Tolkien − William Phemister
Special Feature: Two Responses to Dorothy L Sayers' "Worship in the Anglican Church"
Review Article: Dorothy L - A Dramatic Portrait of Dorothy L Sayers − Barbara Reynolds

Volume 14

The Oecumenical Penguin − Giles Watson
Dorothy L Sayers and Aristotle − Rosamond Kent Sprague
Beyond Ideas: The Intrigue of the Lilith Manuscripts − Rolland Hein
Response to Dorothy L Sayers' Worship in the Anglican Church − John Thurmer
Disseminating Glory: Echoes of Charles Williams in the Works of T S Eliot − Suzanne Bray
Warren Lewis: Historian of the Inkings and of Seventeenth-Century France − Richard C West
On Being a Ghost − Jill Paton Walsh
Christmas and Sport − G K Chesterton
SEVEN Authors in the Internet − Anthony Palmer Dawson
Remembrances of Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs, Anne Scott, and Graham Suter

Volume 15: Owen Barfield and C S Lewis Centenary Issue

Barfield's Evolution of Consciousness: How Much Did Lewis Accept? − Stephen Thorson
The Dungeon of His Soul: Lewis' Unfinished Quest of Bleheris − David C Downing
Through the Wardrobe: A Famous Image Explored − Michael Ward
Glints of Light: The Unpublished Short Poetry of C S Lewis − Don W King
Review Essay: Owen Barfield: A Reader's Guide − David Lavery
Review Essay: On Reading Many Books about Lewis − Peter J Schakel

Volume 16

The Influence of Charles Williams on the Life and Work of W.H. Auden − Cicero Bruce
The Language Learned of Elves: Owen Barfield, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings − Stephen Medcalf
George MacDonald and Jacob Boehme: Lilith and the Seven-fold Pattern of Existence − Deirdre Hayward
Sayers and Son − John Thurmer
Harry Blamires: Oral History Interview with Lyle Dorsett
50 Years On: Dorothy L. Sayers and Dante
A Remembrance of Ralph E. Hone

Volume 17

A Remembrance of Mary McDermott Shideler
A Remembrance of Michael Stansby Williams
The Lion at 50 − Colin Manlove
"Tolkien and Esperanto"
Dear Jim.... the reconstruction of a friendship − Barbara Reynolds
2nd Lieutenant Lewis − K James Gilchrist
Dante and his Daughter: Dorothy L Sayers' response to Maud Bodkin − Dominic Manganiello

Volume 18

Quorum Porum: The Literary Cats of T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter and Dorothy L Sayers − Don King
The Versatile C.S. Lewis: Latin Scholar − Arthur Rupprecht
Charles Williams and the Tradition of Alchemy − Gavin Ashenden
Continuing Research on Second Lieutenant Lewis − James Gilchrist
Special feature highlighting the events related to the dedication of the new facility for the Wade Center in September 2001.

Volume 19

Intellectual Tyrrany: A Rebellion? − Barbara Reynolds
C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity (the Book and the Ideal) at the Start of the Twenty-first Century − Mark Noll
Browsing the Glome Library − Doris Myers
The Foolish Weakness in C.S. Lewis' Cosmic Trilogy: A Feminine Heroic − Monika Hilder
Chapter III of Tolkien and the Silmarillion − Clyde S Kilby
J.R.R. Tolkien's Formal Lecturing and Teaching − J.S. Ryan
News of the completed restoration of C.S. Lewis' Oxford home, The Kilns, as well as the 2002 Dorothy L Sayers Society convention.

Volume 20

C.S. Lewis and Politics − Suzanne Bray
Dorothy L. Sayers and War − Barbara Reynolds
George MacDonald's Transfiguring Fantasy − John Pridmore
Metaphysical and Romantic in the Taliessin Poems − Stephen Barber
Some Views on Catholic Tales and Christian Songs − Christine R. Simpson
Review Article: Survey of Tolkien Literature − Colin Duriez.
Remembrances of Lucy Barfield, Rev. Peter Bide, George Every, and Kathryn Lindskoog.
News and Events: highlights the 2003 Dorothy L Sayers Society convention.

Volume 21

Charles Williams and Owen Barfield: Common (and Uncommon) Ground − Stephen Dunning
Dorothy L Sayers and C.S. Lewis: Two Approaches to Creativity and Calling − Diana Ravlac Gyler and Laura K. Simmons
'Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root': Motifs from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings − Janet Brennan Croft
Lewis and Morris − Robert Boenig
Charles Williams as Medieval Troubadour − Joseph Hugh Simmons
News and Events: highlights the beginnings and evolution of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture, the activities of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society during 2004, and a report on the Marquette Tolkien Conference.

Volume 22

MacDonald’s Shorter Fairy Tales: Journeys into the Mind − Colin Manlove
The Orthodoxology of Dorothy L. Sayers − Crystal Downing
C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and the Anglican Psalter − George Musacchio
Fire and Ice: C.S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter − Don W. King
C.S. Lewis’s Use of Analogy in Theological Understanding − Robert J. Palma
Remembrances of Humphrey Carpenter, George Sayer, and Richard T. Webster
A summary of the proceedings of the 2005 Dorothy L. Sayers Convention
Plus 20 book reviews

Volume 23

G.K. Chesterton: Social Criticism and the Sense of Wonder − Richard Gill
That 'such a genius should be a beastly American': C.S. Lewis as Critic of American Literature − Jack L. Knowles
'My Dear Norah': The Course of a Friendship − Christopher Dean
Eagles with Attitude: Chaucer and Tolkien − Emma B. Hawkins
Finding Joy: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Works of Joy Davidman − Don W. King
Review Article: "Theism and Thought" − Mark R. Talbot

Volume 24

Worshipping the Hero: MacDonald and Carlyle’s Early Novels − David Robb
Contemplating C.S. Lewis’s Epistemology − Norbert Feinendegen
“Seeking But To Do Thee Grace”: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Illustrated Religious Cards − Laura Simmons
Didactic Pleasures: Learning in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia − Paul Tankard
Feminist Nay-Sayers: Are Women Human? − Crystal Downing
Plus 20 book reviews

Volume 25

A Myth of Hubris in Till We Have Faces − Chad Shrock
The Inhabitants of Cosmo’s Drawer − Reid Makowsky
Death − Owen Barfield
Responses to Norbert Feinendegen’s “Contemplating C.S. Lewis’s Epistemology”
Poetry and Transformation − Brian Horne
Plus 18 book reviews

Volume 26

Conversing with Dante: Relational Assent in Charles Williams and George MacDonald − Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Stoic Rationality and Divine Madness in Till We Have Faces − Dale Sullivan
Vocation in Work: Dorothy L. Sayers and Economic Issues − Christine M. Fletcher
That Hideous Latin in That Hideous Strength − Amy E.K. Vail
Plus 13 book reviews

Volume 27

C.S. Lewis on Language and Meaning − Steven A. Beebe
In Search of Lucy: The Life of Lucy Barfield − Owen A. and Adelene Barfield
C.S. Lewis Remembered: Cambridge, 1957-1960 − Tom McAlindon
Woodland Prisoner − Clyde S. Kilby
Two Poems by Owen Barfield − Brett Foster
C.S. Lewis and the Art of the Apologue − Samuel Joeckel
Review Essay: G.K. Chesterton as Thinker and Theologian − Ralph C. Wood
Review Essay: Dearborn's The Baptized Imagination − Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Some Planets in Narnia: A Quantitative Investigation of the Planet Narnia Thesis − Justin L. Barrett
Plus 17 other book reviews

Out of Print Issues

Volumes 6 and 7 are now out of print, but photocopied reproductions bound in clear plastic with a black spine are available (same price).

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