The Hobbit,The Inklings And The New Middle Ages.

As well as JRR Tolkien,C S Lewis and Charles Williams other Inklings who were authors were Warnie Lewis the brother of C S Lewis,Roger Llancelyn Greene,Neville Coghill  and the philosopher Owen Barfield. Barfield is the one I am least familiar with at the moment though I dare say I shall get round to his work eventually.I have recently been reading Warnies book on the social history of the France of Louis XIV which was first read to the Inklings and thought it quite good.Roger Llancelyn Greene is famous for his children's books retelling myths and legends Norse and Classical.He did a particularly good book retelling the Arthurian legends marvelously illustrated with wood cuts.This is still in print in a Puffin classics edition I believe.Neville Coghill produced Penguin classics renditions of Chaucer both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus And Cressida in modern English verse translations, He aslo collaborated on a film version of Marllowes'  Dr Faustus with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor the only time this work has ever been filmed and is worth catching to see Burton in full classical mode.