7. End game

Abstract

‘End game’ describes the growing friendship between C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot as well as the dislike held between Lewis and F. R. Leavis and his followers, the Leavisites. It describes his works, A Study in Words (1960) and An Experiment in Criticism (1961), as well as his numerous short essays, many of which dealt with religious themes, with the interaction of religion and society, with social and cultural features as he saw them, or with cultural mistakes. It also outlines The Discarded Image (1964), which was a masterly introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature. Ill health forced his resignation and he died on 22 November 1963.