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C. S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918
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2012
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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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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7152-3
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978-0-7391-7153-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
243
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Preface No access
Introduction No access
1 The Great War No access Pages 1 - 12
2 The Poets, 1914–1918 No access Pages 13 - 36
3 Jack and Warren Lewis during the Great War No access Pages 37 - 64
4 C.S. Lewis and the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry No access Pages 65 - 72
5 Jack and Spirits in Bondage No access Pages 73 - 142
6 Robert von Ranke Graves (1895–1985) No access Pages 143 - 158
