May 15, 1945

The Place of The Lion (1931) is a novel written by Charles Williams (September 20, 1886 to May 15, 1945 ) The English author. C. S. Lewis is said to have looked up to Williams. The story is told of their first acquaintance, in the book: The rhetoric of vision: essays on Charles Williams which was edited by two of the contributors, Charles Adolph Huttar and Peter J. Schakel (1996).

Williams and Lewis met by exchanging fan letters. In 1936... Lewis had read Williams’ novel The Place of the Lion and was so taken with it that (“for the first time in my life”) he wrote a fan letter to the author; almost immediately he received a reply from Williams explaining that he had been just about to write a similar letter to Lewis after reading the proofs of The Allegory of Love..

The Place of the Lion (1931) is not according to one critic, "the idiosyncratic work of arcane mysticism it has sometimes been deemed to be" but rather portrays spiritual growth as a "progression achieved through the contraries of vision and mundanity expressed through the lioness and the lion, the embodiment of lion-ness."

We quote here, Cath Filmer-Davies, who wrote a chapter for the book of criticism we cite above, specifically the chapter "Charles Williams, A prophet for post modernism: skepticism and belief".

What do I think? It makes me happy to picture the two English scholars, drinking and talking in a pub.