C.S. Lewis enjoyed both stories and poetry. His narrative poems combine his gift in story-telling with his skills as a poet. The four pieces in this book are the only narrative poems by Lewis known to be in existence.
The poems are full of Lewis's romantic imagination; they display his love and knowlege of classic mythology and his own mastery of the English language.
Dymer (1926)
* Launcelot (?early 1930s)
* The Nameless Isle (1930)
* The Queen of Drum (1938)`Dymer' was begun by Lewis as a story in prose and the original idea had `come to him' at the age of 17. It tells the story of a man who begets a monster. The monster kills his father and becomes a god.
`Launcelot' is based on the legend of King Arthur and the Holy Grail and `The Nameless Isle' is the story of a shipwrecked mariner and his adventures on a magic island.
`The Queen of Drum' tells of an old pompous king and his young queen who eventually has to choose between heaven, hell and fairyland.
- ISBN10 0156653273
- ISBN13 9780156653275
- Publish Date 6 February 1978 (first published December 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Edition Harvest/HBJ ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 178
- Language English