Guest Lecture Series Malcolm Guite – The Truth of Imagination in the Writings of Lewis and Tolkien

        <p style="text-align: center;">This free online lecture is part of the <a href="http://mythgard.org/academy/guest-lecture-series/">Mythgard Academy Guest Lecture Series</a>.</p>
        <img class="size-medium wp-image-8824 alignright" src="http://mythgard.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/img_3854-sepia-200x300-200x300.jpg" alt="Malcom Guite" width="200" height="300" /><strong>Synopsis:</strong> John Keats spoke of "The truth of Imagination"; this lecture will explore the ways in which the rich, intuitive, and image-laden myth-making of Lewis and Tolkien allows the imagination to become a truth-bearing faculty.
        <h3><strong>Recordings from Monday, Oct. 26, 2015</strong></h3>
        <em>Watch:</em> <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mythgardacademy/GuestLectureSeries/2015-09-10_TomShippeyMythInModernFantasy.mp4">Video</a>
        <em>Listen:</em> <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mythgardacademy/GuestLectureSeries/2015-10-26_MalcolmGuiteTruthOfImaginationLewisTolkien.mp3">Audio</a>
        <h2>Suggested Reading</h2>
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            <li><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GOBPT2/ref=as_li_tl?&amp;tag=mythgainstit-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tree and Leaf</a></i> by Tolkien, especially the poem "Mythopoeia"</li>
            <li>The introduction to <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Hope-Poetry-Theology-Imagination/dp/140944936X?tag=mythgainstit-20" target="_blank">Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination</a></i> by Malcolm Guite</li>
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        <h2>Biography</h2>
        <a href="http://www.malcolmguite.com/"><strong>Malcolm Guite</strong></a> is a priest, poet, professor, writer, and rock-n-roller. He is Bye-Fellow, Chaplain, and Supervisor in English and Theology at <a href="http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/guite-revd-malcolm" target="_blank">Girton College</a>, Cambridge University. He researches and writes about the interface between theology and the arts, particularly Theology and Literature, and has special interests in Coleridge and C.S. Lewis. He has published a book entitled <em><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Faith-Hope-Poetry-Theology-Imagination/dp/140944936X/ref=la_B0034Q9LNE_1_2?tag=mythgainstit-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination</a></em>, as well as poetry and theological writing. He is also one of the Clergy at St. Edward King and Martyr, in the Centre of Cambridge. He has a rock band called Mystery Train and is part of a jazz-poetry performance collective called riprap.