Will Vaus

In 2014 Winged Lion Press published the first of my three volume work entitled, C. S. Lewis' Top Ten . Each chapter in this series focuses on a different writer and book that Lewis said were among his top ten influences in terms of vocation and philosophy of life. The first volume covered: George Macdonald's Phantastes G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man Virgil's Aeneid Each chapter is broken into three sections dealing with: Lewis' reading of that particular author. A brief biography of the author. A synopsis of the book in question. For the past several months I have been working on Volume 3 in this series. This volume will cover: George Herbert's The Temple William Wordsworth's The Prelude Rudolf Otto's Idea of the Holy I am happy to say that I accomplished my goal of finishing the first draft of the first chapter of Volume 2 before the end of 2014. I spent about a day thinking and writing about each of the some 170 poem...

In 1962, The Christian Century magazine asked C. S. Lewis: “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?” In response, Lewis offered the following list: Phantastes by George MacDonald The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton The Aeneid by Virgil The Temple by George Herbert The Prelude by William Wordsworth The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Descent into Hell by Charles Williams Theism and Humanism by Arthur James Balfour I am writing a book about Lewis' Top Ten Books, with one chapter on each of the above. I have already written the Introduction and the chapter on MacDonald. Each chapter will include a section on how the book influenced Lewis, a brief biography of the author and an overview of the book itself. My goal is to write a chapter per month in 2012. So I thought I would share here some of the...