pstrongDymer is C. S. Lewis' most important poetical work. strongWritten in the tradition of Homer, Spenser, Milton, and Wordsworth. The book is about the temptation of the fantasies of love, lust, and power.ppbrppWe follow Dymer from his birth in a totalitarian state, mockingly referred to as The Perfect City, through the events leading to his confronting a monster of his own making..ppbrppDymer grows to the age of nineteen under the control of the state, then under the influence of spring and the sight of a songbird, he rises in his lecture-hall and murders the aged lecturer before his class, and leaves the stunned civilians behind as he wanders outside The City.ppbrppDymer casts off his clothing along with civilization, wandering in the forests until he comes upon an empty mansion with food prepared. After dressing himself in fine clothing, and feasting alone at a banquet table, Dymer sleeps with an unseen female figure who comes to him in the darkness of the mansion. Upon awakening