What pseudonym did C.S. Lewis use for the 1926 poem Dymer?

C.S. Lewis used the pseudonym Clive Hamilton for his 1926 narrative poem Dymer. The name combined his birth name, Clive, with Hamilton, a surname connected with his family background.

Dymer is a long poem about a monstrous figure who becomes a ruler. It was Lewis’s second published book and appeared before his best-known Christian apologetic works and the Narnia novels.

Lewis also used the name Clive Hamilton for Spirits in Bondage, a collection of poems published in 1919. That earlier volume appeared while he was still developing as a writer and was influenced by the experience and atmosphere of the First World War.

The pseudonym can be confused with Lewis’s initials, but C.S. Lewis was the name under which most of his later books appeared. Dymer was reissued under his real name after his literary reputation had grown.