Poems

C. S. Lewis

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nov 4, 2002 - Poetry - 168 pages

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.

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I honestly believe that some of these poems, e.g. "The Prodigality of Firdausi," are genuinely great contributions to Engish literature.

About the author

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. A Fellow and tutor at Oxford until 1954, he spent the rest of his career as Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, inlcuding The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Poems; A Harvest book
• Author: C. S. Lewis
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
• ISBN: 0547543883, 9780547543888
• Length: 168 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh