Postscript to the C.S. Lewis–T.S. Eliot Story: ‘A Grief Observed’
The Backstory of C.S. Lewis’s Singular Book on Suffering Written after the Death of His Wife
While C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot labored together on the committee to revise the Coverdale Psalter in 1959–1963, tragedy struck. After an earlier bout of cancer, Lewis’s wife, Joy Davidman, faced another. A routine checkup in October 1959 confirmed her disease had returned. Joy was more positive about the news than her husband. “We are,” he admitted, “in…
