A collection of Lewiss 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 Lewiss ingenious and provocative mind (Clyde S. Kilby, New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
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C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) gained international renown for an impressive array of beloved works both popular and scholarly: literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy literature, and numerous books on theology. Among his most celebrated achievements are Out of the Silent Planet, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, and Surprised by Joy.
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While I'd agree that this collection may not be the best introduction to Lewis' writing, I highly recommend it to anyone who's already a fan. Many of the poems provide fascinating perspectives on ideas that he conveys in his other imaginative writing and essays. Poetry was Lewis' favorite form to write, and he topical breadth in this book is quite enjoyable.
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I was dissapointed by Lewis' poems. true, their range was one of the largest i've seen (from sci-fi to christian poems), but most were dull and just didn't live up to his reputation. i'd say stick with his fiction like the chronicles of narnia and the dark tower and other stories
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Many readers, even some of C.S. Lewis' biggest fans, don't realise that Lewis wrote poetry. In fact, Lewis once said that poetry was his favorite literary form. Well, as it turns out Mr. Lewis was an excellent poet, full of style, emotion, and above-all, imagination! The poems in this collection show C.S. Lewis to be a true master of rhyme and meter, and he is also quite masterful in his uses of imagery, sound, and metaphor. There are also some fine non-rhyming pieces here, but it is really his excellent sense of rhyme that sticks out in your head long after you put the book away. Much of the work here (though not all) is of a spiritual nature, and Lewis expresses his faith in Christ quite openly, but never crosses the line into the type of overt "preachiness" that taints much of Christian-oriented poetry. Poems such as "As the Ruin Falls" (which was later turned into a song by Christian musician Phil Keaggy), "Reason", "Pan's Purge", "Deadly Sins", "Pattern", and "Love As Warm as Tears" rate right alongside some of the finest spiritual rhymes ever written, and for fans of Lewis' popular Narnia stories, there is even an imaginative piece called "Narnian Suite". If you are a fan of C.S. Lewis, or just a fan of classic-style poetry, then please crack open this fine book and enjoy!
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While his prose is outstanding and without peer in the English language both in content and style, C.S. Read more
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Quite an interesting and diverse collection of poems.
I found Lewis' poems qood for the most part and interesting. I liked it that there were so many different styles and themes. Read more
Published on July 27 1999
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Collected Poetry of C.S. Lewis
Thomas Howard, writing about this book in a review, remarked, "This is the best - the glorious best - of Lewis. Read more
Published on Jun 23 1998 by David Graham
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