# “An appealing fault” by Walter Hooper

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2012/05/10/an-appealing-fault-by-walter-hooper/
- Published: 2012-05-10T12:00:00-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Although Lewis owned a huge library, he possessed few of his own works. His phenomenal
memory recorded almost everything he had read _except_ his own writings—an appealing
fault. Often, when I quoted lines from his own poems he would ask who the author
was. He was a very great scholar, but no expert in the field of C. S. Lewis.”

–Walter Hooper, “Preface” in C.S. Lewis, [_Poems_](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poems+C.S.+Lewis&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)(
New York: Harvest, 1964), vii.

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