Poems / C.S. Lewis ; edited by Walter Hooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Hooper, Walter.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiv, 142 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., [1992]

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.

Contents:

Pt. I. The hidden country. A confession ; Impenitence ; A cliché 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 ; Donkeys' 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 ; Ballade of dead gentlemen ; The Adam unparadised ; The Adam at night ; Solomon ; The late passenger ; The turn of the tide

Pt. II. The backward glance. Evolutionary hymn ; Prelude to space : an epithalamium ; Science-fiction cradlesong ; An expostulation : against too many writers of science 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 Nicolas 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 works ; Scholar's melancholy

[Cont.] Pt. 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

Pt. IV. Further up & further in. 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

Pt. V. A farewell to shadow-lands. Epigrams and epitaphs.

Notes:

"A Harvest book."

ISBN:

0156027690

9780156027694

OCLC:

51610160