Under what pseudonym did C.S. Lewis publish the 1931 poem-novel Dymer?

C.S. Lewis published the 1931 poem-novel Dymer under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.

Dymer is a long narrative poem about a monstrous figure who becomes a ruler and faces the consequences of his actions. Lewis published it in 1926? No: the work appeared in 1926 under the name Clive Hamilton? Actually, Lewis published Dymer in 1926, while The Pilgrim’s Regress appeared in 1933. The pseudonym is the key distinction: “Clive Hamilton” combined his preferred first name with a surname he used for early writing.

Lewis also used other publishing identities. The Pilgrim’s Regress appeared under his own name, while A Grief Observed was published in 1961 as by N.W. Clerk. These different names can make bibliographies seem more complicated than they are.

Dymer belongs to Lewis’s early poetic and mythic writing rather than to the later Narnia novels. It is often discussed alongside his other early poems and his developing interest in Christian and medieval themes.