Almost Complete Poems

Download Almost Complete Poems PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784103179
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Almost Complete Poems by : Stanley Moss

Download or read book Almost Complete Poems written by Stanley Moss and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost Complete Poems is magnificent. I've read it with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information which it integrates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight.' Marilyn Hacker 'Open Almost Complete Poems anywhere, and you will come shockingly upon wisdom and beauty . . . Of the generation that is gradually leaving us, those born in the mid and late 1920s – Bly, Levine, Kinnell, Rich, Kumin, O'Hara, Cooper, Ferry, Ashbery, Merwin, Gilbert, Wright, myself – he has a prominent place.' Gerald Stern 'Again and again, coming upon a poem of Stanley Moss's, I have had the feeling of being taken by surprise. Not simply by the eloquence or the direct authenticity of the language, [but also] the nature of his poetry itself, and from the mystery that his poems confront and embody, which makes them both intense and memorable . . . ' W.S. Merwin 'Moss rewrites the received idea of religion and the religious poet: his psalms may be exactly the new songs needed to illuminate sombre new times.' Carol Rumens, Guardian

Almost Complete Poems

Download Almost Complete Poems PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609809211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Almost Complete Poems by : Stanley Moss

Download or read book Almost Complete Poems written by Stanley Moss and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Moss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, nature, war, oppression, and the miracle of language. He addresses the God of the Jews, of the Christians, and of the Muslims with awe and familiarity, and chants to lesser gods of his own invention. In every surprising poem, every song to life, beautiful life, Moss, by turns giddy and sorrowful, expresses a sacred sensuality and an earthy holiness. Or putting it another way: here is a mind operating in open air, unimpeded by fashion or forced thematic focus, profoundly catholic in perspective, at once accessible and erudite, inevitably compelling. All of which is to recommend Moss's ability to participate in and control thoroughly these poems while resisting the impulse to center himself in them. This differentiates his beautiful work from much contemporary breast-beating. Moss is an artist who embraces the possibilities of exultation, appreciation, reconciliation, of extreme tenderness. As such he lays down a commitment to a common, worldly morality toward which all beings gravitate.

Mysterious Realities

Download Mysterious Realities PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 160868539X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Mysterious Realities by : Robert Moss

Download or read book Mysterious Realities written by Robert Moss and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to Encounter Goddesses, Daimons & Parallel Worlds Sigmund Freud called dreams the “royal road to the unconscious,” but to bestselling author and world-renowned dream explorer Robert Moss, they are more: portals to the imaginal realm, a higher reality that exists at the intersection of time and eternity. The traveler’s tales in this book are just-so stories in the sense that they spring from direct experience in the many worlds. As you journey from the temple of the Great Goddess at Ephesus to an amazing chance encounter on an airplane, from Dracula country in Transylvania to the astral realm of Luna, you’ll confirm that the doors to the otherworld open from wherever you are. You’ll see what it means to live on a mythic edge and to make a deal with your personal Death for a life extension. At any moment, you may fall, like the author, into the lap of a goddess or the jaws of an archetype.

Pictures from Bhagavad-Gita as it is and Other Poems

Download Pictures from Bhagavad-Gita as it is and Other Poems PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
ISBN 13 : 0911233415
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Pictures from Bhagavad-Gita as it is and Other Poems by : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī

Download or read book Pictures from Bhagavad-Gita as it is and Other Poems written by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 1987 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blake: The Complete Poems

Download Blake: The Complete Poems PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317644352
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Blake: The Complete Poems by : W.H. Stevenson

Download or read book Blake: The Complete Poems written by W.H. Stevenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake (1757 - 1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visonary. Profoundly libertarian in outlook, Blake's engagement with the issues of his day is well known and this - along with his own idiosynratic concerns - flows through his poetry and art. Like Milton before him, the prodigality of his allusions and references is little short of astonishing. Consquently, his longer viosnary poems can challege the modern reader, who will find in this avowedly open edition all they might need to interpret the poetry. W. H. Stevenson's Blake is a masterpiece of scrupulous scholarship. It is, as the editor makes clear in his introduction, 'designed to be widely, and fluently, read' and this Third Edition incorporates many changes to further that aim. Many of the headnotes have been rewritten and the footnotes updated. The full texts of the early prose tracts, All Religions are One and There is no Natural Religion, are included for the first time. In many instances, Blake's capitalisation has been restored, better to convey the expressive individuality of his writing. In addition, a full colour plate section contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs. As the 250th anniversary of his birth approaches, Blake has perhaps more readers than ever before; Blake: The Complete Poems will stand those readers, new and old, in good stead for many years to come.

The Complete Poems and Translations

Download The Complete Poems and Translations PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201487
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Complete Poems and Translations by : Christopher Marlowe

Download or read book The Complete Poems and Translations written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works--from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," to the impressive epic mythological poem "Hero and Leander." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Collected Poems and Other Verse

Download Collected Poems and Other Verse PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199537925
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Collected Poems and Other Verse by : Stéphane Mallarmé

Download or read book Collected Poems and Other Verse written by Stéphane Mallarmé and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stéphane Mallarmé was a radically innovative poet of the 19th century, in English as well as in French. This text contains his poetry and his Poesies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author and provides a wide-ranging survey of his work.

Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

Download Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392312
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 by : Czeslaw Milosz

Download or read book Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 written by Czeslaw Milosz and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Café' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native Polish language. He also remembers his schooldays in 'The World', and in 'Bypassing Rue Descartes' recalls the Paris streets of his student years, displaying both tenderness and tough-minded fury towards those who shaped his experiences. Writing not about abstract emotions, but about the horrors and beauty that he directly observed, Milosz opens our eyes to the joy-bringing potential of the poetry to which he gave his life. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Complete Poems of John Donne

Download The Complete Poems of John Donne PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317862031
Total Pages : 1121 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Complete Poems of John Donne by : Robin Robbins

Download or read book The Complete Poems of John Donne written by Robin Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poems of John Donne is one volume paperback edition of the poems of John Donne (1572-1631) based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne’s output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to exercise his rhetorical capabilities according to context and occasion. This edition aims to present the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. The Longman Annotated English Poets series traditionally aims to present poems in chronological order; in this edition, however, the principle has been observed only within generic sections. This organisation reproduces the manner in which Donne’s original readers first encountered the poems in the various manuscripts of his elegies and satires that circulated in Donne’s lifetime. Volume One contains the Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love Lyrics, Love Elegies and Satires; Volume Two contains the religious poems, Wedding Celebrations, Verse Epistles to Patronesses, Commemorations, and the Anniversaries. The lyrics have been arranged alphabetically for ease of reference and because, in all but a few cases, precise date of composition is impossible to determine. Each poem has extensive editorial commentary designed to put the twenty-first century reader in possession of all that is necessary fully to appreciate Donne’s work. A substantial headnote sets each poem in its historical and literary context, while the annotations give detailed guidance on the wealth of classical and religious allusions and give full representation to the literary, historical and philosophical culture out of which the poems grew. In keeping with the traditions of the series, Donne’s own text has been modernised in punctuation and spelling except where to do so would alter or disrupt a rhyme.

The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick

Download The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191549835
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick by : Tom Cain

Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick written by Tom Cain and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edition for fifty years of one of the greatest of English lyric poets. Volume I concentrates on Herrick's large printed collection, Hesperides, published in 1648, and the product of nearly four decades of writing. The text is based on a collation of all fifty-seven known surviving copies of Hesperides. In addition it includes a much needed new biography, covering the suicide of his father, his apprenticeship as a goldsmith-banker, and his subsequent career in Cambridge, London, and Devon. It provides a survey of Herrick's fluctuating critical reputation-from 'the first in rank and station of English song-writers' to 'trivially charming'-and a detailed reconstruction of the original printing and publishing, just after the first Civil War, of a book which was the first 'Complete Works' to be published by an English poet. There is also a newly ordered sequence of Herrick's letters from Cambridge, his only surviving prose. An extensive commentary on Hesperides is placed in Volume II so that readers can use it side by side with the poems if they wish. The commentary gives new translations of Herrick's hundreds of classical allusions, and quotes his equally numerous Biblical ones, both of them far more extensive, and frequently far more playful, than has hitherto been realised. It also notes many parallels between Herrick's work and that of contemporaries, especially Jonson, Shakespeare, Burton, and John Fletcher, and his habit of echoing or quoting himself, a tendency which reinforces the strong sense of Herrick's persona dominating the collection. Full explanations are given of contemporary personal, political, and cultural references.

The Mystery of Iniquity

Download The Mystery of Iniquity PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813195055
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Mystery of Iniquity by : William H. Shurr

Download or read book The Mystery of Iniquity written by William H. Shurr and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life and reading during those years and of the intellectual and artistic ambience of the later nineteenth century. With the exception of Billy Budd, almost all of the writing Melville produced between 1857 and 1891 is poetry. Until now little attention has been given to the poetry and it has been customary to view Melville's final masterpiece, Billy Budd, against the background of the earlier fiction—almost as if the writing of the intervening thirty-four years had not existed. William H. Shurr, who has studied the poems with close attention to the Melville manuscripts in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, contends that Melville's poetry merits more attention and appreciation than has hitherto been accorded it. Concerned principally with the maturation of Melville's darker themes, he has been the first to study the carefully designed sequences in which Melville published his poems. He has also discovered in the poems thematic patterns—among them Melville's heterodox Christology and his concept of a particular kind of individualism found in what he calls the "transcendent act"—that shed new light on the complexities of Billy Budd.

Text

Download Text PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472111947
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Text by : W. S. Hill

Download or read book Text written by W. S. Hill and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another volume in the distinguished annual

Fifty Fifty

Download Fifty Fifty PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784108790
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Fifty Fifty by : Robyn Marsack

Download or read book Fifty Fifty written by Robyn Marsack and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of letters - handwritten, typed, and now emailed - between an author and the editor. Beginning in 1969 with the response to an invitation to subscribe to Carcanet for two guineas, the book traces Carcanet's progress and offers insight into the nature of literary editing. At its heart is the personal relationship of author and editor/publisher, the conflicts, friendships and vicissitudes that occur at the nexus between the work, its creator, publisher and reader. Poets are central, but fiction writers, translators, biographers and critics also contribute to the Carcanet ferment and firmament. Fifty Fifty celebrates the writers', readers' and editor's risks, passions and pleasures.

The Best American Poetry 2021

Download The Best American Poetry 2021 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982106638
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Best American Poetry 2021 by : David Lehman

Download or read book The Best American Poetry 2021 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Gl

Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition

Download Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299144500
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (445 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition by : Michael Wachtel

Download or read book Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition written by Michael Wachtel and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Wachtel explores here the art and development of Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), a poet and theorist who articulated a highly influential concept of Symbolism. The German writers Goethe and Novalis played a powerful part in Ivanov's vision and were, in his mind, powerful precursors in a proto-Symbolist pantheon. Their work not only influenced his writing but also, in maintaining the Symbolist creed of unity in art and life, altered his world perspective. Wachtel, in exploring Ivanov's relationship to Goethe and Novalis, illuminates the issues that lie at the core of Symbolism: the theory of the symbol, poetics, poetry as theurgy, the relationship between literary creation and "real life," and the theory and practice of translation.

Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)

Download Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated) PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1909496448
Total Pages : 9986 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated) by : Henrik Ibsen

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated) written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 9986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modernism', with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ibsen's life and works * Detailed introductions to the plays and other texts * 24 plays with individual contents tables, many appearing for the first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as PEER GYNT are fully illustrated * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Also includes Ibsen's complete works in the original Norwegian language ñ ideal for students (Ibsens samlede verker i norsk sprÂk) * Features Ibsen's rare speeches and letters in English translation * Unique criticism section, with essays by writers such as Henry James and James Joyce evaluating Ibsen's contribution to literature * Features Edmund Gosse's celebrated biography on his friend Ibsen - discover the playwright's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: there are no known translations of the two early plays NORMA and ST. JOHN'S EVE in the public domain. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays CATILINE THE BURIAL MOUND LADY INGER OF OESTRAAT THE FEAST AT SOLHAUG OLAF LILJEKRANS THE VIKINGS AT HELGELAND LOVE'S COMEDY THE PRETENDERS BRAND PEER GYNT THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH EMPEROR AND GALILEAN PILLARS OF SOCIETY A DOLL'S HOUSE GHOSTS AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE THE WILD DUCK ROSMERSHOLM THE LADY FROM THE SEA HEDDA GABLER THE MASTER BUILDER LITTLE EYOLF JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN The Poems INTRODUCTION TO IBSEN'S POETRY by Fydell Edmund Garrett LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Norwegian Texts (De norske tekster) LIST OF WORKS (LISTE OVER IBSENS VERKER) The Non-Fiction SPEECHES AND NEW LETTERS The Criticism HENRIK IBSEN by Arthur Symons A DOLL'S HOUSE by Montrose J. Moses GHOSTS by Montrose J. Moses HEDDA GABLER by Frank W. Chandler THE MASTER BUILDER by Frank W. Chandler HENRIK IBSEN by Henry James IBSEN'S NEW DRAMA by James Joyce The Biography THE LIFE OF HENRIK IBSEN by Edmund Gosse Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

The Complete Works: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Novels, Religious Studies, Poetry & Autobiography

Download The Complete Works: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Novels, Religious Studies, Poetry & Autobiography PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3817 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Complete Works: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Novels, Religious Studies, Poetry & Autobiography by : C. S. Lewis

Download or read book The Complete Works: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Novels, Religious Studies, Poetry & Autobiography written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 3817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This C. S. Lewis collection is formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an interactive table of contents, footnotes and other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. Novels: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew The Last Battle Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength The Screwtape Letters The Pilgrim's Regress The Great Divorce Till We Have Faces Short Stories: Screwtape Proposes a Toast Ministering Angels Religious Studies: The Allegory of Love The Problem of Pain A Preface to Paradise Lost The Abolition of Man Miracles Mere Christianity Reflections on the Psalms The Four Loves An Experiment in Criticism A Grief Observed Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Poetry: Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics Autobiography: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Speeches: Transposition The Weight of Glory Membership Learning in War-Time The Inner Ring De Descriptione Temporum The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version Hamlet: The Prince or The Poem? Kipling's World Sir Walter Scott Lilies that Fester Psycho-analysis and Literary Criticism The Inner Ring Is Theology Poetry? Transposition On Obstinacy in Belief The Weight of Glory Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.