Although C. S. Lewis never published a book of verse during his lifetime, he wrote poetry from the age of fourteen. This poetic impulse is evident in much of his work, including his first prose piece, Pilgrim's Regress, which contains a number of short lyrics, and in his novel Till We Have Faces, which had its beginnings as a long poem.
There is a great variety in the subjects of the poems here—God and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love, age, and reason. Walter Hooper, who edited this collection, points out that the same man is revealed in his poetry as in his prose: "His wonderful imagination is the guiding thread."
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