Which C.S. Lewis book was published posthumously in 1964 after being edited by Walter Hooper?

The Discarded Image was published posthumously in 1964 after being edited by Walter Hooper.

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was Lewis’s final academic work. It was published in 1964, after his death, with Walter Hooper preparing the manuscript for publication. The book explains the medieval and Renaissance model of the universe and the imaginative framework that shaped literature from those periods.

Lewis describes this model as an organized picture of the cosmos, including Earth, the heavens, spiritual beings, and the influence of classical and Christian ideas. His discussion helps readers understand the intellectual background of authors such as Dante, whose work Lewis studied closely.

The book is sometimes confused with Lewis’s earlier academic writings, including The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Unlike those works, The Discarded Image appeared after Lewis died in 1963 and was completed for publication by an editor.