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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dalya Alberge

‘Loud-mouthed bully’: CS Lewis satirised Oxford peer in secret poems

CS Lewis sat behind a desk
Clive Staples Lewis was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, for 29 years until leaving for Cambridge in 1954. Photograph: taken from picture library

CS Lewis loathed one of his fellow Oxford academics so much that he satirised him in a series of seven previously unpublished poems that have been discovered.

The Chronicles of Narnia author simply could not stand HC Wyld, deriding his lectures as elementary and dismissing his snobbery and his bullying of students, referring to him in his diary as “the cad”.

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