The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606352024 ISBN 13: 9781606352021

Publisher: Kent State University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Although C. S. Lewis is best known for his prose and for his clear, lucid literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and imaginative Ransom and Narnia stories, he considered himself a poet for the first two and a half decades of his life. Owen Barfield recalls that anyone who met Lewis as a young man in the early 1920s at Oxford University quickly learned he was one "whose ruling passion was to become a great poet. At that time if you thought of Lewis you automatically thought of poetry." The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis offers readers, for the first time, a one-volume collection of Lewis's poetry, including many poems that have never appeared in print. With the poems arranged in chronological order, this volume allows readers the opportunity to compare the poetry Lewis was writing while he was also writing his fiction and nonfiction prose.

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About the Author

Don W. King is Professor of English at Montreat College in North Carolina, USA. On multiple occasions he has led Lewis seminars at the Kilns—Lewis’s home in Oxford—and has published C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (The Kent State University Press, 2001) and Plain to the Inward Eye: Selected Essays on C.S. Lewis. He has also written extensively on the important women in Lewis’s life, including Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter (The Kent State University Press, 2008) and Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman

Edition details

• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1606352024
• ISBN 13: 9781606352021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 485
• Editor: King Don W.