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The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of
C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don
W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warren's
famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how Warren's
experiences provide an illuminating window into the events,
personalities, and culture of 20th-century England. Inkling,
Historian, Soldier, and Brother will appeal to those interested in
C. S. Lewis and British social and cultural history. As a career
soldier, Warren served in France during the nightmare of World War
I and was later posted to Sierra Leone and Shanghai. On his
retirement from the army, he became an active member of the
household at the Kilns, the residence outside Oxford that he
co-owned with his brother and Mrs. Janie Moore, and he played an
important role in the relationship between his brother and Joy
Davidman, the woman who became C. S. Lewis's wife. A talented
writer and accomplished amateur historian, Warren also researched
and wrote seven books on 17th-century French history. Inkling,
Historian, Soldier, and Brother examines Warren Lewis's role as an
original member of the Oxford Inklings-that now famous group of
novelists, thinkers, clergy, poets, essayists, medical men,
scholars, and friends who met regularly to drink beer; discuss
books, ideas, history, and writers; and share pieces of their own
writing for feedback from the group. Drawing from Warren Lewis's
unpublished diaries, his letters, the memoir he wrote about his
family, and other primary materials, this biography is an engaging
story of a fascinating life, period of history, and of the warm and
loving relationship between Warren and his brother, which lasted
throughout their lives.
The intracarotid amobarbital (or Amytal) procedure is commonly
referred to as the Wada test in tribute to Juhn Wada, the physician
who devised the technique and performed the fIrst basic animal
research and clinical studies with this method. Wada testing has
become an integral part of the pre operative evaluation for
epilepsy surgery. Interestingly, however, Wada initially developed
this method as a technique to assess language dominance in
psychiatric patients in order that electroconvulsant therapy could
be applied unilaterally to the non-dominant hemisphere. Epilepsy
surgery has matured as a viable treatment for intractable seizures
and is no longer confmed to a few major universities and medical
institutes. Yet, as is increasingly clear by examining the surveys
of approaches used by epilepsy surgery centers (e.g., Rausch, 1987;
Snyder, Novelly, & Harris, 1990), there is not only great
heterogeneity in the methods used during Wada testing to assess
language and memory functions, but there also seems to be a lack of
consensus regarding the theoretical assumptions, and perhaps, even
the goals of this procedure.
Joy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman
that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she
was also an accomplished writer in her own right - an awardwinning
poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the
late 1930s and early 1940s. Yet One More Spring is the first
comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction,
and fiction. Don King studies her body of work - including both
published and unpublished works - chronologically, tracing her
development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence
on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her
religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism
to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of
previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More
Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely
overlooked American writer.
Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman (1915-1960)
was a gifted writer herself who published, among other things, a
volume of poetry and two novels in her short lifetime. This book is
the first comprehensive collection of Davidman's poetry, including
her published collection Letters to a Comrade (1938), forty other
published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished
poems. Of special interest is her sequence of forty-five love
sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of Davidman's
spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her
sense of God's working in her lonely life, and her mounting
frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm's length emotionally
and physically. This moving collection of poems lends credence to
Davidman's stature as an important twentieth-century American poet.
Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) may not be widely known, but her
credentials as a poet are extensive; in England from the mid-1930s
to the mid-1970s she maintained a loyal readership. In total she
produced 17 volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy of
Arms (1936) won the Hawthornden Prize for Poetry in 1937, and in
1954 she was awarded the William E. Heinemann Award for The Ermine
(1953). Most notably, perhaps, she became the first woman to
receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955; this
unprecedented event merited a personal audience with the queen. In
addition, from 1946 to 1972 she was often a guest on BBC radio
programs, and from 1956 to 1960 she appeared regularly on the BBC's
The Brains Trust, one of the first television talk shows; her
thoughtful comments on the wide range of issues discussed by the
panelists were a favorite among viewers. In 1974 the Royal Society
of Literature elected her to its highest honor, a Companion of
Literature, and in 1979 she received her last national award when
she was appointed a Commander of the British Empire. Pitter's many
admirers included Owen Barfield, Hilaire Belloc, Lord David Cecil,
Philip Larkin, C. S. Lewis, Kathleen Raine, May Sarton, and
Siegfried Sassoon. At her death in 1992, one writer claimed, "She
came to enjoy perhaps the highest reputation of any living English
woman poet of her century." Pitter's best poems focus on nature and
the human condition, taking us to hidden or secret places, just
beyond the material, to the meaning of life. Her poems are often
the result of a heightened sense of felt experience-intuitive and
evocative. If human life is lived behind a veil faintly obscuring
reality, Pitter's poems often lift the edge of the veil. Sudden
Heaven arranges Pitter's poems in chronological order, allowing
readers to follow her maturation as a poet, and it features a
number of poems that have never before appeared in print.
Although Ruth Pitter (1897 1992) is not well known, her credentials
as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the
mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total
she produced eighteen volumes of new and collected verse. Her A
Trophy of Arms (1936) won the Hawthornden Prize for Poetry in 1937,
and in 1954 she was awarded the William E. Heinemann Award for The
Ermine (1953). Most notably, perhaps, she became the first woman to
receive the Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955. Furthermore,
from 1946 to 1972 she was often a guest on BBC radio and television
programs, In 1974 The Royal Society of Literature elected her to
its highest honor, a Companion of Literature, and in 1979 she
received her last national award when she was appointed a Commander
of the British Empire. Pitter was a voluminous letter writer. Her
friends and correspondents read like a Who s Who of
twentieth-century British literary luminaries, including AE (George
Russell), A. R. Orage, Hiliare Belloc, Walter de la Mare, Julian
Huxley, John Masefield, Phillip and Ottoline Morrell, George
Orwell, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, James Stephens,
Dorothy L. Sayers, Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Sackville-West,
Dorothy Wellesley, Lord David Cecil, John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh,
John Wain, Kathleen Raine, and May Sarton. Stylistically Pitter s
letters are marked by crisp prose, precise imagery, and elegant
simplicity reflecting a well-read and vigorous mind lithe, curious,
penetrating, analytical, and perceptive. Of more her more than one
thousand letters covering the years 1908-1988, I publish here a
generous selection. I believe these selected letters go a long way
toward illustrating Pitter s desire to reach a public interested in
her as both a poet and personal commentator. These letters offer an
understanding of the silent music, the dance in stillness, the
hints and echoes and messages of which everything is full reflected
in her life and poetry. In total they provide an essential
introduction to the work of this neglected twentieth-century poet."
Although 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." The Collected Poems of C. S.
Lewis offers 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.
Beginning with his earliest lyric poems from 1907, The Collected
Poems of C. S. Lewis follows 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,
Spirits in Bondage (1919), followed by his most ambitious narrative
poem, Dymer (1926). Both volumes afford unique insights into Lewis
the atheist. After his conversion to Christianity in 1930, Lewis
wrote a collection of sixteen religious lyrics that he included in
The Pilgrim's Regress (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
nat whilk, "[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. The Collected
Poems of C. S. Lewis demonstrates a dedicated, determined, and
passionate poet at work and illustrates the degree and depth to
which poetry shaped Lewis's literary, intellectual,
 emotional, and spiritual life.
C. S. Lewis is best known as the creator of the fanciful world of
Narnia and as a masterful writer of literary criticism and
Christian apologetics. But he began his literary career as a poet,
under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton, and only later did he turn
to prose writing and find fame. In C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of
His Poetic Impulse Don W. King contends that Lewis's poetic
aspirations enhanced his prose and helped make him the master
stylist so revered by the literary world. With its careful
examination of early diaries and letters, and the inclusion of four
of Lewis's previously unpublished narrative poems and eleven of his
previously unpublished short poems, this important book explains
the man through his writing and considers how Lewis's lifelong
devotion to poetry is best realized in his works of prose. Readers
and admirers of Lewis will certainly find their understanding of
his writing greatly enhanced by this perceptive book.
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