Belfast born CS Lewis whose grandfather was rector of St Mark’s, Dundela, is to be honoured with a plaque at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey. Links to the BBC news report and article by Ulster born academic and writer Alister McGrath in today’s Daily Telegraph follow.
CS Lewis honour in Poets’ Corner
BBC report – Westminster Abbey is to honour The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe author CS Lewis with a memorial stone in Poet’s Corner, to be dedicated next year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20426778
C S Lewis deserves his place in Poets’ Corner
Telegraph – With simplicity and elegance, he captured the imagination of a war-weary generation… by Alister McGrath who is Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King’s College London. His ‘C S Lewis: A Life’ will be published by Hodder in April 2013
Today it will be announced that a memorial to the poet, literary scholar and novelist C S Lewis (1898-1963) is to be placed in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey next November, 50 years after his death. He joins a select group of poets, playwrights and writers to have been buried or commemorated there, including Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. I would argue that Lewis certainly merits inclusion among these greats of English literature.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9693294/C-S-Lewis-deserves-his-place-in-Poets-Corner.html