Harry Blamires

Who is Harry Blamires?

Harry Blamires is an Anglican theologian, literary critic, and novelist. Now retired, Blamires served as head of the English department at King Alfreds College in Winchester, England. He started writing in the late 1940s at the encouragement of his friend, C. S. Lewis, his tutor at Oxford University.

His best known work is The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? which has been used as a textbook at hundreds of bible colleges and seminaries around the world. Blamires is also the author of A Short History of English Literature, and A History of Literary Criticism.