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C.S. Lewis Poems
Poems
142 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1964
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C.S. Lewis
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Clive Staples Lewis 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. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
Lewis was married to poet Joy Davidman.
W.H. Lewis was his elder brother]
Clive Staples Lewis 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. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
Lewis was married to poet Joy Davidman.
W.H. Lewis was his elder brother]
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March 25, 2024
I did not really enjoy the first half of this book of poems. There was a decent amount of hating on sci fi and space travel (????? Jack you WROTE sci fi ABOUT space travel) using weird metaphors about . . . Anatomy (??????) and a lot of the poems felt pretty puffed up and prideful to me, as well as not remotely emotive. Once Lewis's poems about faith (and once he experienced some life) (aka post-teenage poems) things drastically improved-- emotion, humility, some really delightful turns of phrase. Wasn't my favorite book of poetry, and I can't even say that I was pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised. It just turned out to be quite nice.
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