{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-c-s-lewis-a-critical-edition-paperback-softback-9781606354117","title":"The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis; A Critical Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9781606354117","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDon W. King (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781606354117\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e485 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.7 x 3 cm, 0.648 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Don King has done a great service in collecting Lewis's poetry into one volume, including a good many poems never published before. C. S. Lewis is so widely admired as a prose writer that it is easy to overlook his accomplishments as a poet. But here we find the precocious adolescent perfecting his craft in a surprising variety of forms and meters: the eloquent war poet, whose best pieces rival those of Wilfred Owen; the spiritual pilgrim, who eventually found what he was seeking; and the witty occasional poet with a zest for whimsy and satire. Professor King is the world's leading authority on Lewis's poetry, and so his critical introduction and comprehensive notes invite readers to discover a delightful and thought-provoking side of Lewis they may have not seen before.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eDavid C. Downing,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003ePlanets in Peril: C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLooking for the King: An Inklings Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This magisterial critical work by Professor King provides students of Lewis's poetry unprecedented chronological access to the full range of his poems, and makes possible a comprehensive reassessment of Lewis's enduring talent as a poet.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eBruce L. Edwards,\u003c\/strong\u003e Professor Emeritus, English and Africana Studies, Bowling Green State University, and editor of \u003cem\u003eC. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e (4 volumes)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough 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.\"\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with his earliest lyric poems from 1907, \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis \u003c\/i\u003efollows Lewis's efforts to write long, narrative poems, which were particularly influenced by Norse mythology. His outburst of lyric poetry as a young man in the trenches during World War I culminates in his first published work, \u003ci\u003eSpirits in Bondage \u003c\/i\u003e(1919), followed by his most ambitious narrative poem, \u003ci\u003eDymer \u003c\/i\u003e(1926). Both volumes afford unique insights into Lewis the atheist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter his conversion to Christianity in 1930, Lewis wrote a collection of sixteen religious lyrics that he included in \u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Regress \u003c\/i\u003e(1933); as a group, these are considered among his best poems. Until his death in 1963, Lewis continued writing and publishing poetry, often appearing in journals and magazines under his pseudonym N. W., shorthand for the Anglo-Saxon \u003ci\u003enat whilk\u003c\/i\u003e, \"\"[I know] not whom.\"\" As a whole, these latter poems are either occasional verses, burlesques, and erudite satires or they are contemplative poems musing upon the human condition and its pain, joy, suffering, pride, love, doubt, and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates a dedicated, determined, and passionate poet at work and illustrates the degree and depth to which poetry shaped Lewis's literary, intellectual, ?áemotional, and spiritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"The Kent State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52521348858136,"sku":"9781606354117","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-c-s-lewis-a-critical-edition-paperback-softback-9781606354117","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}