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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).... read more
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First Sentence edit
I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Part I: The Hidden Country
A Confession
Impenitence
A Cliche 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
Donkey's Delight
The Small Man Orders His Wedding
The Country of the Blind
On Being Human
The Exstasy
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
Part 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
Part III: A Larger World
Wormwood
Virtue's Independence
Posturing
Deception
Deadly Sins
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- C. S. Lewis (Author)
- Walter Hooper (Editor)
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Publication Date: 1969
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- Dewey: 821
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