Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green (born November 2, 1918 in Norwich , † October 8, 1987 in Poulton Hall ) was a British writer .

Life

The estate of Lancelyn Green family dates back to the year 1093 back when Randle Greene (sic) and Elizabeth, daughter of William Lancelyn, under the reign of Elizabeth I married.

The son of Major Gilbert Arthur Lancelyn Green (1887-1947) of the Royal Artillery and Helena Mary Phyllis, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Henry Sealy, from Hambledon House, Hampshire at CS Lewis at Merton College , Oxford , where he received a BLitt. As a student, he appeared in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's Shakespeare dramas, produced by Nevill Coghill. From 1945 to 1950 he was assistant librarian at Merton College, from 1950 to 1952 he was a William Noble Research Fellow in English literature at Liverpool University . From 1968 to 1969 he taught as Andrew Lang Lecturer at the University of St Andrews . He gave the Andrew Lang Lecture in 1968.

Lancelyn Green stayed close to Lewis until his death in 1963 and vacationed in Greece with Lewis and his wife Joy Gresham shortly before their death from cancer in 1960. When Lewis began writing the Narnia books in the late 1940s, Lancelyn Green wrote that they should be called the Chronicles of Narnia. In addition to CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, he was a member of the Inklings' Oxford Discussion Group .

Lancelyn Green lived in Cheshire at Poulton Hall, a mansion that his ancestors owned for more than 900 years. He was lord of the mansions of Poulton-Lancelyn and Lower Bebington.

His son was the writer Richard Gordon Lancelyn Green .

Fonts (small selection)

• Into other worlds. Space-flight in fiction, from Lucian to Lewis . New York 1975, ISBN 0-405-06329-6 .
• The tale of Thebes . Cambridge 1977, ISBN 0-521-21410-6 .
• King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table . Höhr-Grenzhausen 1992, ISBN 3-925612-20-3 .
• Legends and myths of the Nordic gods . Würzburg 2017, ISBN 3-401-60310-8 .