Poems - Softcover

Lewis, C. S.

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ISBN 10: 0156722488 ISBN 13: 9780156722483

Publisher: Harcourt, 1977

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Poetry - The guiding thread of this book is the wonderful imagination of C. S. Lewis. Subjects include God and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love, age and reason.

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"This is the best the glorious best of Lewis. For here, with the gemlike beauty and hardness that poetry alone can achieve, are his ideas about the nature of things that lay behind his writings." Christianity Today
Known worldwide for his fiction and philosophical essays, C.S. Lewis was just as much a poet as a polemicist. From the age of fourteen, he wrote poetry on just as many subjects as he covered in his prose, and in fact poetry is even present in his other writings, such as the short lyrics included in The Pilgrim s Recess and Till We Have Faces, which began its life as a long poem. Whether writing prose or poetry, Lewis s wonderful imagination is the guiding thread.
That imagination is on display in Poems, with works covering the many varied subjects Lewis was interested in his whole life, everything from God to nature, love to reason, unicorns to spaceships.
"Take[s] an important place in the Lewis canon." New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

Walter Hooper was born in Reidsville, North Carolina. He first met C.S Lewis in 1963 and following Lewis’s death he assisted Owen Barfield in managing Lewis’s literary estate. Now a trustee of the Lewis estate. Hooper is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on the life and works of C.S. Lewis. He has edited and written introductions for dozens of Lewis’s religious books. A former Anglican priest, he is now a Catholic and has lived in Oxford since 1964.

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