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<DIV><I>Displays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius</I><BR /><BR /> Although best known as C. S. Lewis&#39;s wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime.<BR /><BR /> The first comprehensive collection of Davidman&#39;s poetry, <I>A Naked Tree</I> includes the poems that originally appeared in her <I>Letter to a Comrade</I> (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery.<BR /><BR /> Of special interest is Davidman&#39;s sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God&#39;s working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm&#39;s length emotionally and physically.<BR /><BR /> Readers of these Davidman poems -- arranged chronologically by Don King -- will discover three recurring, overarching themes: God, death, and immortality; politics, including capitalism and communism; and (the most by far) roman

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Author

Joy Davidman, Don W. King

Publisher

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Co.;William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781467442930

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.57 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14