The Great C.S. Lewis :: biographies bio biography

C.S. Lewis, the great author, wrote all kinds of reading material poetry, novels, and even childrens fiction. He even wrote at a young age. He would draw his own pictures. People during his time loved his books, and today people still love to read his books. This author was also intelligent, joyful, and charitable.C.S. Lewis was a very intelligent man. He proved this in many ways during his lifetime. The way he lived is a very good example. When Lewis became a Christian, as J.I. meat packer and Jerry Root write in their article, Mind in Motion, His habits of mind also continued unchanged. He was already thinking how he thought a Christian should. He also shows his intelligence during his teen tears at Oxford, when he excelled as a student. He was also intelligent as a tutor. Kenneth Tynan, Lewiss former pupil, tells in Bruce L. Edwardss magazine article Literary Time Travel, The great thing about him as a teacher of literature was that he could take you into the medieval mind and th e mind of a classical writer. He could see you understand that classicism and medievalism were really vivid and alive-that it was not the business to be relevant to us, but our business to be relevant to it. It was not a matter of dead books covered in dust on our shelves. He could make you see the world through the eyes of a medieval poet as no other teacher could do. You felt that you had been inside Chaucers mind by and by(prenominal) talking to him. It is instances like these that show just how intelligent C.S. Lewis really was. C.S. Lewis was a very joyful man, and his joyfulness shone through in all he did. He would assign nicknames to his family members and friends, like Robert E. Havard the useless Quack or as he called his walking companion A.C. Harwood, the Lord of the Walks. Another glimpse of his joyful spirit is when he finished his first day at Oxford and wrote to his dad, The place has surpassed my wildest dreams. I never saw anything so beautiful. Finally, we se e his joy when he wrote to one of his friends right after his marriage, Its funny having at 59 the sort of happiness most men have at their twenties Thou hast kept the good fuddle till now. C.S. Lewis was a very joyful man from whom people could learn a lot.