"In C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse Don W. King contends the Lewis's poetic aspirations enhanced his prose and helped make him the master stylist so revered by the literary world. With its careful examination of early diaries and letters, and the inclusion of four of Lewis's previously unpublished narrative poems and eleven of his previously unpublished short poems, this important book explains the man through his writing and considers how Lewis's lifelong devotion to poetry is best realized in his work of prose. Readers and admirers of Lewis will certainly find their understanding of his writing greatly enhanced by this perceptive book."--BOOK JACKET.