Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman by Don W. King

By Don W. King

The first complete examine of a talented yet mostly neglected American writer

pleasure Davidman (1915–1960) is maybe most sensible identified this day because the lady that C. S. Lewis married within the final decade of his lifestyles. yet she used to be additionally an comprehensive author in her personal correct — an award profitable poet and a prolific e-book, theater, and movie reviewer throughout the past due Thirties and early 1940s.

Yet another Spring is the 1st accomplished serious learn of pleasure Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King stories her physique of labor — together with either released and unpublished works — chronologically, tracing her improvement as a author and revealing Davidman's literary effect on C. S. Lewis. King additionally indicates how Davidman's paintings displays her spiritual and highbrow trip from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity.

Drawing because it does on a cache of formerly unknown manuscripts of Davidman's paintings, Yet yet another Spring brings to gentle the paintings of a really talented yet principally missed American writer.

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