What literary group did C.S. Lewis belong to at Oxford?

C.S. Lewis belonged to the Oxford literary group known as The Inklings.

The Inklings were an informal discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, active particularly from the 1930s into the early 1950s. Members and guests met to read unfinished writing aloud, discuss literature, and debate ideas about fiction, myth, and Christianity.

J.R.R. Tolkien was one of Lewis’s closest fellow members. Other participants included Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Warren Lewis, and Hugo Dyson. The group did not have a formal constitution or fixed membership list, so descriptions of its exact membership can vary.

The name “Inklings” was adopted from an earlier student literary society and also suggested people who had an inkling of an idea. The group is often linked with the development and discussion of The Lord of the Rings and Lewis’s fiction, but it was not a publishing house or a formal university department.