Autograph Fair Copy with one correction of his poem "Vowels and Siren" with one variation from the printed version, (C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of 'The Screwtape Letters' and 'The Chro

by LEWIS

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the poem starts Chosen to seduce you, / Those dove-like vowels, / Deuro kudos Odusseus. / Opening the bay, his prow. Appeared. The air rang with / Sirens voices. / The hero, bound, in anguish / Tried to retract his choice... , however the third verse has a different last line and runs No word of solace / For a lover s longing / They breathed. Of vanished knowledge / Was their intemperate song... , whereas the published version has the word interrupted , he has also corrected the first word of the next verse but otherwise the last three verses are the same as the printed version, 1 side A4, Magdalen College, Oxford, no date but circa Best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis was also an academic and a renowned Christian apologist. Until he was thirty, he was determined to be a poet. As a medieval scholar, Lewis felt a particular affinity for Old English alliterative verse. Vowels and Sirens , published in the TLS in 1952, has a robust medieval music appropriate to Odysseus encounter with the Sirens. Provenance: By descent from Mary Shelley, later Mrs Daniel Neylan. She was a pupil of Lewis s from the early 1930 s. See the article https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2012/06/14/letters-to-an-oxonian-lady-c-s-lewis-relationship-with-mary-neylan/

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