Ruth Pitter, a family acquaintance, helped him find lodgings, and by the end of 1927 he had moved into rooms in Portobello Road ;( a blue plaque commemorates his residence there.

They had met on the chorus line of Pitter Patter.

Pitter is considered by many Lewis scholars to have had an effect on his writing in the 1940s and 1950s.

Pitter began writing poetry early in life under the influence of her parents, George and Louisa ( Murrell ) Pitter, both primary schoolteachers.

Despite her business and factory work, Pitter managed to spend a few hours a day writing poetry.

Because of this, Pitter was frequently overlooked by critics of her day, and has only in recent years been seen as important: her reputation was helped by Larkin's respect for her poetry ( he included four of her poems in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ).

She was a good friend of C. S. Lewis, who admired her poetry and once said, according to his friend and biographer George Sayer, that if he was the kind of man who got married, he would have wanted to marry Ruth Pitter.

* The religious poetry of Ruth Pitter

* 1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet ( b. 1897 )

He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees, where he could " change " for his sporadic tramping expeditions.

He learned exactly two songs – " Hiawatha " and " Pitter, Patter, Little Raindrops " – and would be asked to play " half or all my repertoire " when visitors came to the house.

Emma Thomas " Ruth " Pitter, CBE, FRSL ( 7 November 1897 – 29 February 1992 ) was a 20th century British poet.

Pitter was born in Ilford.

Later, Pitter and her lifelong good friend, Kathleen O ' Hara, operated Deane and Forester, a small firm that specialized in decorative, painted furniture.

Pitter took work in a factory.

Pitter was skilful at the flower-painting used in both furniture and tray decorating.

Pitter was a traditionalist poet — she avoided most of the experimentations of modern verse and preferred the meter and rhyme schemes of the 19th century.

Lord David Cecil once remarked that Pitter was one of the most original and moving poets then living.

Pitter described her spiritual debt to C. S. Lewis:

* Pitter, Ruth.

Pitter on Cats.

His name occurs with spellings as Peder and Pitter.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Some " unfree " gladiators bequeathed money and personal property to wives and children, possibly via a sympathetic owner or familia ; some had their own slaves and gave them their freedom.

Irving Berlin quipped, " The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl ", In his book The Groucho Phile, Marx says " I've been a liberal Democrat all my life ", and " I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd ....

The Mongol Empire was known for its religious tolerance, but had a special leaning towards Buddhism and was sympathetic towards Christianity.

The prosperity of Zubarah, which is now in modern Qatar, had also brought it to the attention of the two main powers at the time, Persia and the Oman, which were presumably sympathetic to Sheikh Nasr ’ s ambitions.

Thus in power struggles apparently instigated by Hürrem, Suleiman had Ibrahim murdered and replaced with her sympathetic son-in-law, Rüstem Pasha.

When decades later Prokofiev wrote about his lessons with Glière, he gave due credit to Glière's sympathetic qualities as a teacher but complained that Glière had introduced him to " square " phrase structure and conventional modulations which he subsequently had to unlearn.

" Bay had worked closely with Ed Harris to develop his character as concretely as possible, later adding a sympathetic edge to Hummel.

Stanton, who had unsuccessfully run for Congress in New York in 1868, was more sympathetic to Woodhull.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

In short story, The Basement Room ( 1935 ), by Graham Greene, the ( sympathetic ) servant character, Baines, tells the admiring boy, son of his employer, of his African British colony service, " You wouldn't believe it now, but I've had forty niggers under me, doing what I told them to ".

Clement was a Gascon sympathetic to the king, and on Edward's instigation had Winchelsey suspended from office.

In 1577 Leicester had a courteous meeting with Mary, lending a sympathetic ear to her complaints of captivity.

Even sympathetic observers who had stomached the earlier trials found it hard to swallow new charges as they became ever more absurd and the purge by now expanded to include virtually every living Old Bolshevik leader except Stalin.

Until February, the LN had received disproportionate and generally sympathetic coverage in the media.

He had been elected by the faction of cardinals sympathetic to the political liberalization coursing across Europe, and his initial governance of the Papal States gives evidence of his own liberal sympathies: Under his direction various sorts of political prisoners in the Papal States were released and the city of Rome was granted a constitutional framework under guidance of his friend, philosopher-prince Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.

The situation reached a head in August, when through sympathetic intermediaries, he negotiated a settlement repealing the tax hike, reinstating village officials who had resigned in protest and the return of seized property and lands.

He said he had gone into it feeling sympathetic to communism, coming as he did from a poor family.

For instance, the Portland Storm's players were reportedly being fed by sympathetic local fans, while the Charlotte Hornets had their uniforms impounded for not paying a laundry bill from the time the team was located in New York.

One study found that smokers with coronary artery disease had a significantly increased level of sympathetic nerve activity when compared to those without.

It was rarely and loosely in contact with the outer islands, which had more Japanese troops ( particularly in Japanese naval areas ), less sympathetic Japanese commanders, and fewer Republican leaders and activists.

They thus were perceived to have had presented a story of Jesus that was more sympathetic to Romans than to Jews.