Christian British Authors of the Late 19th - Early 20th Centuries

Authors and Works

• C. S. Lewis (The Four Loves - book-length essay)
• George MacDonald (selections from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance - novel)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins ("Heaven-Haven," "Easter Communion," "Pied Beauty," "Carrion Comfort" - poetry)
• D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Why Does God Allow War? - theology)
• Amy Carmichael (selections from Gold Cord - nonfiction)
• G. K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy - theology)
• T. S. Eliot ("Tradition and the Individual Talent" - essay)
• Dorothy L. Sayers (Gaudy Night - novel)

Topics

• The five-paragraph essay
• The Inklings
• Symbolism
• Word-choice, imagery, and syntax in poetry
• The Oxford movement
• Writing clearly
• Writing for a reason
• Persuasive writing
• Literary analysis
• Write what you know

Recommendations

This course is especially recommended for the following students:

• Students who have already taken at least two previous high-school level Lightning Literature courses
• Students studying modern history
• Students interested in these authors and works

These should not be viewed as restrictions; this course can profitably be used by high-school students of any grade regardless of which previous Lightning Literature courses they have completed. Generally speaking, this course is more difficult than all the other Lightning Literature courses except the Shakespeare courses and the British Medieval course. Much depends on student interest in the material, however.