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Mar 1, 2013 · Writing the book A Grief Observed was the one therapy that helped C.S. Lewis cope following the death of his wife, Helen Joy Davidman (“H.” in the book). Here C.S. Lewis–Atlanta Teaching Fellow and apologist, Jana Harmon, shares some insights on this great classic work of Lewis.
A Grief Observed is a collection of C. S. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection.
A Grief Observed. The loss of Joy plunged Lewis into the depths of grief and pain. Following Joy’s death, Lewis kept a journal and wrote down his thoughts because he was personally helped by doing so—with no intent of publication.
Jul 16, 2012 · When Joy died, Lewis’s brave words melted down into Grief, a composition that simply reproduces the four handwritten journals Lewis wrote in an attempt to work through his pain. Initially published under a pseudonym, N. W. Clerk, friends began giving the book to Lewis, thinking it might help him.
Jan 24, 2015 · For a fuller account of how Lewis ultimately came to an understanding, read his poignant and searing little book A Grief Observed. Three months after losing Joy, he wrote to Chad Walsh and his wife. Walsh was an American professor who had written the first analytical book about Lewis back in the 1940s— C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics .
A Grief Observed The loss of Joy plunged Lewis into the depths of grief and pain. Following Joy’s death, Lewis kept a journal and wrote down his thoughts because he was person-ally helped by doing so—with no intent of publica-tion. Later, he published his journaled thoughts under a pseudonym, N.W. Clerk (a pun on the Old English
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Lewis's A Grief Observed is articulate and self-reflective but not self-absolving. The writer's sorrow are deeply felt alongside Joan Didion's more intellectualized account of her daughter's untimely death (is death ever timely?) and her husband's sudden death.
