Record Number: 32314

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I wonder did you notice the article on Nietzsche in last Sunday's Times Literary Supplement, which demonstrates that although we have been told to regard Nietzsche as the indirect author of this war, nothing could be farther removed from the spirit and letter of his teaching? It just shows how we can be duped by an ignorant and loud mouthed cheap press. Kirk, who knows something about N., had anticipated that article with us, and is in high glee at seeing the blunder "proclaimed on the housetops".'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1914 and 5 Oct 1914

Country:

England

Time

morning

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Mr Kirkpatrick was certainly present, because he and Lewis discussed the article. Mrs K., their houseguest Oswald Smythe (a former pupil) and other unnamed members of 'the household' referred to in the letter, may also have been present.

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

[Anon] [Anon]

Title:

The Nietzschean Way

Genre:

History, Politics, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

The Times Literary Supplement (1st October 1914), 442

Provenance

owned
owned by the Kirkpatricks, rather than by Lewis himself

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32314

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

74

Additional Comments:

From a letter to his father, [5th?] October 1914. 'Kirk' is his tutor, William Thompson Kirkpatrick, formerly headmaster of Lurgan College, Co. Armagh, where Lewis's father had been a pupil.

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 74, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32314, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None