Nov 04, 2010 - Sale 2228

Sale 2228 - Lot 192

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LOOKS TO MILTON AS A PRONUNCIATION GUIDE LEWIS, C.S. Autograph Letter Signed, to Miss McEwan, expressing uncertainty about whether a uniform edition of Charles Williams's works is becoming available, remarking that a new American edition would likely be very expensive, advising not to expect a new edition of The Region, and suggesting pronunciations of two words based upon how Williams spoke and upon a rhyme in Milton's Paradise Regained. 1 page, 4to, "Magdalen College" stationery; very slight fading to last lines of text including signature, folds; matted and framed. Oxford, 18 [April 19]50
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"I have not heard about any uniform edition of C.W.'s complete works. Faber is republishing its novels, I'm told, but whether uniform or not I don't know. The novels are also being republished in U.S.A. but in the present state of the £ I expect that edition wd. be fabulously expensive for us. There is no talk of any new edition of The Region. In fact, the prospect is bleak!
"Logres is two syllables with the accent on the first and roughly rhymes with ogress. Charles himself (and most people, tho' not all) pronounced Broceliande as four syllables with the accent on the second --
"Bross-élly-and.
"The English pronunciation of Logres (as offered to either the French or Welsh) is from J. Milton's line in P. Regained
"By knights of Logres or of Lyonesse."