SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review

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Volume 1

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

Volume 2

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

Volume 3

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

Volume 4

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

Volume 5

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

Volume 6 (out of print)

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

Volume 7 (out of print)

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

Volume 8

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

Volume 9

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

Volume 10: Sayers Centenary Issue

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

Volume 11

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

Volume 12

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

Volume 13

"G K Chesterton: Myth, Paradox, and the Commonplace" by Rolland Hein
"The Day Boy and the Night Girl" by Adrian Gunther
"Higher Dimensions: C S Lewis and Mathematics" by David L Neuhouser
"Fantasy Set to Music: Donald Swann, C S Lewis, and J R R Tolkien" by 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" by Barbara Reynolds

Volume 14

"The Oecumenical Penguin" by Giles Watson
"Dorothy L Sayers and Aristotle" by Rosamond Kent Sprague
"Beyond Ideas: The Intrigue of the Lilith Manuscripts" by Rolland Hein
"Response to Dorothy L Sayers' Worship in the Anglican Church" by John Thurmer
"Disseminating Glory: Echoes of Charles Williams in the Works of T S Eliot" by Suzanne Bray
"Warren Lewis: Historian of the Inkings and of Seventeenth-Century France" by Richard C West
"On Being a Ghost" by Jill Paton Walsh
"Christmas and Sport" by G K Chesterton
"SEVEN Authors in the Internet" by 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?" by Stephen Thorson
"The Dungeon of His Soul: Lewis' Unfinished Quest of Bleheris" by David C Downing
"Through the Wardrobe: A Famous Image Explored" by Michael Ward
"Glints of Light: The Unpublished Short Poetry of C S Lewis" by Don W King
"Review Essay: Owen Barfield: A Reader's Guide" by David Lavery
"Review Essay: On Reading Many Books about Lewis" by Peter J Schakel

Volume 16

"The Influence of Charles Williams on the Life and Work of W.H. Auden" by Cicero Bruce
"The Language Learned of Elves: Owen Barfield, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings" by Stephen Medcalf
"George MacDonald and Jacob Boehme: Lilith and the Seven-fold Pattern of Existence" by Deirdre Hayward
"Sayers and Son" by 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" by Colin Manlove
"Tolkien and Esperanto"
"Dear Jim.... the reconstruction of a friendship" by Barbara Reynolds
"2nd Lieutenant Lewis" by K James Gilchrist
"Dante and his Daughter: Dorothy L Sayers' response to Maud Bodkin" by Dominic Manganiello

Volume 18

"Quorum Porum: The Literary Cats of T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter and Dorothy L Sayers" by Don King
"The Versatile C.S. Lewis: Latin Scholar" by Arthur Rupprecht
"Charles Williams and the Tradition of Alchemy" by Gavin Ashenden
"Continuing Research on Second Lieutenant Lewis" by 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?" by Barbara Reynolds
"C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity (the Book and the Ideal) at the Start of the Twenty-first Century" by Mark Noll
"Browsing the Glome Library" by Doris Myers
"The Foolish Weakness in C.S. Lewis' Cosmic Trilogy: A Feminine Heroic" by Monika Hilder
"Chapter III of Tolkien and the Silmarillion" by Clyde S Kilby
"J.R.R. Tolkien's Formal Lecturing and Teaching" by 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" by Suzanne Bray
"Dorothy L. Sayers and War" by Barbara Reynolds
"George MacDonald's Transfiguring Fantasy" by John Pridmore
"Metaphysical and Romantic in the Taliessin Poems" by Stephen Barber
"Some Views on Catholic Tales and Christian Songs" by Christine R. Simpson
Review Article: Survey of Tolkien Literature by 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" by Stephen Dunning
"Dorothy L Sayers and C.S. Lewis: Two Approaches to Creativity and Calling" by Diana Ravlac Gyler and Laura K. Simmons
"'Bid the Tree Unfix His Earthbound Root': Motifs from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings" by Janet Brennan Croft
"Lewis and Morris" by Robert Boenig
"Charles Williams as Medieval Troubadour" by 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" by Colin Manlove
"The Orthodoxology of Dorothy L. Sayers" by Crystal Downing
"C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and the Anglican Psalter" by George Musacchio
"Fire and Ice: C.S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter" by Don W. King
"C.S. Lewis’s Use of Analogy in Theological Understanding" by 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 10 book reviews.

Volume 23

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

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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