What name did C.S. Lewis use when he published Dymer in 1926?

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

Dymer is a long narrative poem about a young man whose actions lead him into a strange and disturbing world. Lewis published it before his best-known Christian apologetic and fantasy works, when he was still building his reputation primarily as a poet and scholar. The pseudonym separated the poem from his professional identity and from his earlier poetry.

Lewis used more than one name during his career. Friends and family commonly called him “Jack,” a nickname dating from childhood, while “C.S. Lewis” became his public author name. Clive Hamilton was a publishing pseudonym, not a second legal identity or another author.

The poem was revised for later editions, and its imagery anticipates some of Lewis’s recurring interests: myth, moral choice, desire, and transformation. It is much less familiar to general readers than The Chronicles of Narnia, but it is important for understanding his early literary development.