At the dedication of a memorial [pictured in the link] to C\u201d\u2030S Lewis in Poets\u2019 Corner yesterday, the Westminster Abbey choir sang one of his poems, \u201cLove\u2019s as Warm as Tears\u201d\u009d (to a setting by Paul Mealor, who wrote the music for Ubi Caritas at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011).<\/p>\n
Lewis was not a great poet, if a more accomplished one than Adam Fox, whose memorial is visible across the south transept. Lewis had plotted to have Fox, a clerical fellow of Magdalen, elected Professor of Poetry in 1938, even though the candidate himself was well aware of his limitations as a poet or academic. (He admired Plato and wrote a long poem called Old King Coel, published by the Oxford University Press.)<\/p>\n
The success of Lewis\u2019s scheme probably lost him any professorship at Oxford, but he was turning in any case against academic politics (as reflected in his novel That Hideous Strength)….<\/p>\n