The love sonnets in the previous post were written by the American Joy Davidman to C. S. Lewis.
A series of 45 Sonnets were only discovered in 2010 by Douglas Gresham (the younger of Davidman’s two sons) and have been published in 2015. Don W. King, The Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and other Poems by Joy Davidman.
Davidman and Lewis’s relationship has been well told of course – not least by the 1993 film Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.
They started corresponding in 1950, she first met him in 1952. She was divorced in…
