These members include: Charles Williams, David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, Owen Barfield, and Roger Lancelyn Green. While Burns Library has many holdings by Tolkien and Lewis (including a first edition of The Lord of the Rings ) the purpose of this blog post is to explore some of the lesser known members of the Inklings and their accomplishments. Members of the Inklings were some of the first to learn the fate of Frodo Baggins and the ring of power. They discussed their writings and read aloud their unfinished works. Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College as well as a local pub in Oxford. Lewis – two giants of 20th century literature. Formed in the 1930s, the Inklings were an informal literary group that included J.R.R. Whether the Transcendental Club of the 1830s boasting members such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau or the Bloomsbury Group of early 20th century London composed of Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes, literary circles have left their marks on the cultural landscape for centuries.
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