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C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 (Hardcover, New)
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C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 (Hardcover, New)
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The life and work of C.S. Lewis after his conversion in 1931 is
well known and his reputation shows no signs of diminishing. His
earlier years have not been so well studied, particularly between
the ages of 16 and 22 when he studied privately and at Oxford,
served in the British army, was wounded in France, entered into his
affair with Janie Moore, and wrote and published his first book of
poems. To correct and augment the limited accounts of this period,
Lewis s life is presented with the general and specific background
which makes it more meaningful, particularly as it throws light on
his character. The romantic myth of him as a "soldier-poet" is
dispelled, largely through an extensive review of the poems in
"Spirits in Bondage" and the self-centered life that produced them.
A valuable comparison not to the advantage of Lewis is drawn with
two undoubted soldier-poets, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon.
The purpose is not to disparage or belittle Lewis but to show what
had to be overcome in his limited and unpleasant early moral
character in order to produce the devoted Christian of later
years."
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