Dymer

Dymer is C. S. Lewis’ most important poetical work. Written in the tradition of Homer, Spenser, Milton, and Wordsworth. The book is about the temptation of the fantasies of love, lust, and power.

We follow Dymer from his birth in a totalitarian state, mockingly referred to as The Perfect City, through the events leading to his confronting a monster of his own making..

Dymer grows to the age of nineteen under the control of the state, then under the influence of spring and the sight of a songb...