He returned to it in March 1955, when Joy Davidman Gresham (the woman he was to marry the following year) spent a weekend with Lewis and his brother. The story stayed in Lewis's mind, 'thickening and hardening with the years', but if he made other attempts to tell it in poetic form, nothing is known of them. A year later his 'head was very full of my old idea of a poem on my own version of the Cupid and Psyche story' he had by this point already started such a poem twice, 'once in couplet and once in ballad form'. with no success' and in November of that year he was 'thinking how to make a masque or play of Psyche'. A diary entry for May 1922 records, 'Tried to work on “Psyche”. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. Lewis first read the tale in late 1916, and responded by trying to write his own version of it. Lewis, 'Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche' And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. Background / The book is a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, from the Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, of Lucius Apuleius. It remains the least popular of his fictional works, though it is the most highly praised by literary critics. He was disappointed by the initial response to it: some reviews were partially negative and sales were lower than his other books, probably because of its difficulty and its differences from his earlier fiction. Lewis's last work of fiction, and the one he considered his best. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) was C.S.
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