XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:26:04 -0500, "Michael Martin"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:11:34 -0500, "Michael Martin"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> What little I have read of CSL's poetry has left me cold.  Tolkien   
   >>> was   
   >>> by far the better poet of the two.   
   >>   
   >> And Williams was probably better than either.   
   >>   
   >> Tolkien was a fairly competent versifier; Williams was a poet.   
   >   
   >I assume you mean Charles Williams?  I've been meaning to read his   
   >work for a long time, but have never gotten around to it.   
      
   Yes indeed.   
      
   His work is more likely to be out of print than that of Lewis and Tolkien.   
      
      
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