Favourite Poems for Children

Read again for the fourth time, and finished in February of 2017.......more

Today I finshed this incredible volume of poems by C.S.Lewis that is edited by Walter Hooper. It was a fascinating read. My favorite particular poem from the volume is called "Prayer." It conveys the terrible fear that prayer is wishful thinking, but ends with an affirmation that it is a mysterious......more

I was flabbergasted and stunned, by the cheer might and astonishing power this poems contains!!!! I feel like doors have been wide opened deep inside of me..... I have been raptured in eerie moods and magically kidnapped in other worlds; Poems by C. S. Lewis and edited by Walter Hooper is a book full o......more

I'm not a lover of poetry in general and I don't profess to liking absolutely everything that CS Lewis penned. I am trying to expand my exposure to poetry though and wanted to experience Lewis is verse form. It took me awhile to work through this collection. It wasn't my favorite. Out of the entire......more

Lewis always aspired to be a poet. This was really his first literary love, and although he is far more well-known for his prose works, his passion for poetry shaped the way in which he wrote everything he did. In this collection of his poems you get a first hand taste of his labors to master the ski......more