![]() ![]() ![]() This is a mistake because what scholars have done is to let a valuable resource fall through the cracks. Many of his books for kids are still available, while his criticism has been neglected and allowed to go out of print. In a life that included friendships with both Tolkien and Lewis, he managed both a family, and a career as a critic and author of children’s books, as well as being a central yet overlooked member of the informal Inkling literary club. Roger Green made a decent enough use of his time on earth. There is at least one name missing from the roster of men who according to Philip and Carol Zaleski, “altered, in large or small measure, the course of imaginative literature ( The Fellowship, 4).” The name belongs to Roger Lancelyn Green. While Glyer’s appendix is thorough, it is by no means complete. In an appendix to her otherwise excellent The Company They Keep, Diana Glyer provides a list of the members of the literary club known as the Inklings, an informal collection of writers centered around the twin fantasists J.R.R. ![]()
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