What was the pen name C.S. Lewis used for Dymer?

C.S. Lewis used the pen name Clive Hamilton for his 1926 poem Dymer.

Lewis’s legal name was Clive Staples Lewis, so “Clive Hamilton” retained his first name while replacing his surname. Dymer was published before he became widely known as C. S. Lewis, the name used for most of his later fiction, criticism, and Christian writing.

The pseudonym is easy to confuse with N. W. Clerk, the name Lewis used for the scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama. Lewis also had the childhood nickname “Jack,” but that was a personal name used by friends rather than the pen name on Dymer.

Dymer belongs to Lewis’s early poetic period and has a darker, more allegorical tone than the Narnia books. Its publication shows that his career as a writer began with verse and mythic narrative before his best-known prose works appeared.