Under what pen name did C.S. Lewis publish Dymer in 1926?

C.S. Lewis published Dymer in 1926 under the pen name Clive Hamilton.

Dymer is a narrative poem about a rebellious figure who becomes involved in a strange and violent imaginative world. Lewis had already used Clive Hamilton for his 1919 poetry collection Spirits in Bondage. The pseudonym combined his first name with his mother’s maiden name, Hamilton.

At the time, Lewis was establishing himself as a scholar and poet rather than as the celebrated Christian writer and children’s novelist he would later become. Dymer’s style and subject matter belong to his early literary period and do not resemble the accessible adventure format of Narnia.

The name Clive Hamilton can be confused with Lewis’s later initials, C.S. Lewis. It was a publishing pseudonym, not a separate author. Lewis’s legal name was Clive Staples Lewis, though he was commonly called Jack by friends and family.