Which C.S. Lewis work was originally published under the name Clive Hamilton in 1919?

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Spirits in Bondage was originally published under the name Clive Hamilton in 1919.

Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first published volume of poetry. It appeared in 1919 under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, a name formed from his first name and his mother’s maiden name, Hamilton. Lewis was about twenty years old when the collection was published.

The poems reflect the influence of classical literature, romantic poetry, and Lewis’s experience during the First World War. He served in the British Army and was wounded in France in 1918, shortly before the collection appeared.

The book is sometimes confused with Dymer, another early poetic work published under the same pseudonym in 1926. It is also distinct from Poems, a later collection that gathered Lewis’s poetry under his familiar initials.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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