Poems

Title:

Poems

Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963, author.

Contents:

Part I: The Hidden Country -- A Confession -- Impenitence -- A Clich Came Out of Its Cage -- Pan's Purge -- Narnian Suite -- The Magician and the Dryad -- The True Nature of Gnomes -- The Birth of Language -- The Planets -- Pindar Sang -- Hermione in the House of Paulina -- Young King Cole -- The Prodigality of Firdausi -- Le Roi S'Amuse -- Vitrea Circe -- The Landing -- The Day with a White Mark -- Donkey's Delight -- The Small Man Orders His Wedding -- The Country of the Blind -- On Being Human -- The Ecstasy -- The Saboteuse -- The Last of the Wine -- As One Oldster to Another -- Ballad of Dead Gentlemen -- The Adam Unparadised -- The Adam at Night -- Solomon -- The Late Passenger -- The Turn of the Tide

Part II: The Backward Glance -- Evolutionary Hymn -- Prelude to Space: An Epithalamium -- Science-Fiction Cradlesong -- An Expostulation: Against too many writers of sciece fiction -- Odora Canum Vis: A defence of certain modern biographers and critics -- On a Vulgar Error -- The Future of Forestry -- Lines During a General Election -- The Condemned -- The Genuine Article -- On the Atomic Bomb: Metrical Experiment -- To the Author of Flowering Rifle -- To Roy Campbell -- Coronation March -- "Man is a Lumpe Where All Beasts Kneaded Be" -- On a Picture by Chirico -- On a Theme from Nicholas of Cusa -- What the Bird Said Early in the Year -- The Salamander -- Infatuation -- Vowels and Sirens -- The Prudent Jailer -- Aubade -- Pattern -- After Aristotle -- Reason -- To Andrew Marvell -- Lines Written in a Copy of Milton's Work -- Scholar's Melancholy

Part III: A Larger World -- Wormwood -- Virtue's Independence -- Posturing -- Deception -- Deadly Sins -- The Dragon Speaks -- Dragon-Slayer -- Lilith -- A Pageant Played in Vain -- When the Curtain's Down -- Divine Justice -- Eden's Courtesy -- The Meteorite -- Two Kinds of Memory -- Re-adjustment -- Nearly They Stood -- Relapse -- Late Summer -- To a Friend -- To Charles Williams -- After Vain Pretence -- Angel's Song -- Joys That Sting -- Old Poets Remembered -- As the Ruin Falls

Part IV: Noon's Intensity -- Poem for Psychoanalysts and/or Theologians -- Noon's Intensity -- Sweet Desire -- Caught -- Forbidden Pleasure -- The Naked Seed -- Scazons -- Legion -- Pilgrim's Problem -- Sonnet -- The Phoenix -- The Nativity -- Prayer -- Love's as Warm as Tears -- No Beauty We Could Desire -- Stephen to Lazarus -- Five Sonnets -- Evensong -- The Apologist's Evening Prayer -- Footnote to All Prayers -- After Prayers, Lie Cold

Part V: A Farewell to Shadowlands -- Epigrams and Epitaphs

Physical Description:

xiv, 142 p. ; 20 cm.

Genre:

Poetry.

Personal Subject:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963-Poetry.

Publisher:

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

Electronic Access:

Publisher description
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Publication Date:

1977

1964

ISBN:

9780156722483

Publication Information:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, c1964.

Call Number:

821 LEWIS

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Summary

A collection of Lewis's shorter poetry on a wide range of subjects-God and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love, age, and reason: "Idea poems which reiterate themes known to have occupied Lewis's ingenious and provocative mind" (Clyde S. Kilby, New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

Author Notes

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, "Jack" to his intimates, was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. His mother died when he was 10 years old and his lawyer father allowed Lewis and his brother Warren extensive freedom. The pair were extremely close and they took full advantage of this freedom, learning on their own and frequently enjoying games of make-believe.

These early activities led to Lewis's lifelong attraction to fantasy and mythology, often reflected in his writing. He enjoyed writing about, and reading, literature of the past, publishing such works as the award-winning The Allegory of Love (1936), about the period of history known as the Middle Ages.

Although at one time Lewis considered himself an atheist, he soon became fascinated with religion. He is probably best known for his books for young adults, such as his Chronicles of Narnia series. This fantasy series, as well as such works as The Screwtape Letters (a collection of letters written by the devil), is typical of the author's interest in mixing religion and mythology, evident in both his fictional works and nonfiction articles.

Lewis served with the Somerset Light Infantry in World War I; for nearly 30 years he served as Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College at Oxford University. Later, he became Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University.

C.S. Lewis married late in life, in 1957, and his wife, writer Joy Davidman, died of cancer in 1960. He remained at Cambridge until his death on November 22, 1963.

(Bowker Author Biography)