Published a few months after the end of the Great War as part of the vogue for soldier poets, this verse cycle (a prologue and 40 poems) was C. S. Lewis first book. <p> The poet was not yet 21, and his world view was dominated by two principles: rage-filled atheism (I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.) and romantic longing (in the words of the prologue, Sing about the Hidden Country...
