The Personal Heresy: A Controversy PDF
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LIBRARY DELHI UNIVERSITY DELHI UNIVERSITY LaRAgy cum OE ee mse 229G0E Dae of ee fo tan ftw took sbedd te surat on or ilo tae HB aS Bg det ao overdue cage of Same le cole rach ‘by th book hep oer ~ jf] ——{|— THE PERSONAL HERESY 4 CONTROVERST THE PERSONAL HERESY A CONTROVERSY BY E.M. W. TILLYARD Fal of Jas Elie Gandy AnD C.S, LEWIS Fete of Sapte Clg, Orford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO 1939 PREFACE [E authors would like it to be understood that the following cssays do not form what is usually called a ‘symposium’, that is, a staged or prearranged début, estrif, or disputatio in which the combatants undertake respectively to maintain and attack a pre- scribed thesis for the delectation of the audience. ‘The author of the frst essay was not, when he wrote it, personally acquainted with his antagonist; he faoped, rather than expected, to be answered somes time and somewhere by ‘any whom it might con- cern’, Since then the argument has continued by its ‘own momentum. The authors have decided to pub- lish it because, thinking the subject worthy of con- sideration, they have not thought that they could fay it more fairly hefore their readers in any other way. No doubt this form las its drawbacks. Both authors have found now and then that the alley they were exploring was blind and have had to retrace their way, with apparent waste of time and effort. Further, they may be taxing the reader's attention more severely than if each had written a full-length book. But they believe that the ease with which either of these books might have been read-specially by those who had never read, or had forgotten, the other—would be deceptive. The critical world is at present much divided into groups and camps, and those who accept their principles from any one camp are not, pethaps, always aware of what can be urged against them. One remembers the Dumb raters in Crabbe, The readers of this book cannot vi PREFACE: fall into that error; bane and antidote here grow side by side; and neither author, even if he wished, can here play Cato to any ‘little senate of his own. t has also seemed to us that a revival of the art of Controversy would now be a wholesome thing. A dangerous habit is growing up among critics of disagresing without ever meeting face to face; of taking for granted in footnotes and parentheses and anonymous reviews the absurdity of opinions which hhave never, in fact, been publicly refuted. To all this we feel that the juste cantroversio stands much as the dus stands to mere backbiting, nose-slitting, and abuse; and is, for that reason, to be preferred. Tt oaly remains to thank the English Association for allowing the reprint of the first three essays, which originally appeared in volumes xix (1934), xx (1995), and zee (1996) of Zscaye and Studtes. EMW.T. O81. CONTENTS ‘THE PERSONAL HERESY ww. Mh Me WTTLLYARD mesimws 2, ME 2, Wy, TIELVARD NOTE. yas.
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