If in doubt, we will always beĬautious, and preserve the original spelling. While we strive to fix printer’s errors, many words found in ourīooks may have archaic spelling.If you think we might need to communicate with
Has page numbers, please include the page number otherwise please includeĪ significant text string to help us to locate the error. If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. Hopkins, Dictionary of National Biography, 1941-50. He passed away in Oxford in 1945 at the age of 58. His seven novels appeared from 1930 onwards unlike much fantasy fiction, they deal not with imaginary magical worlds but with the irruption of supernatural elements into everyday life. Much of his critical writing grew out of this activity. His early verse was written in traditional form, but this he later abandoned in favour of a stressed prosody built upon a framework of loosely organized internal rhymes.Ĭharles Williams worked nearly all his life for the Oxford University Press, also lecturing extensively on English literature for evening institutes and latterly for Oxford University. These themes formed the substance of all his later volumes and found their fullest expression in the novels (which he described as “psychological thrillers”), in his Arthurian poems, and in many books of literary and theological exegesis. More and more in his writings he devoted himself to the propagation and elaboration of two main doctrines – romantic love, and the co-inherence of all human creatures. Williams was an unswerving and devoted member of the Church of England, with a refreshing tolerance of the scepticism of others, and a firm belief in the necessity of a “doubting Thomas” in any apostolic body. Among his biographical works the most notable are Bacon (1933), James I (1934), Rochester (1935) and Queen Elizabeth (1936) and among his novels War in Heaven (1930), The Place of the Lion (1931), Many Dimensions (1931), Descent into Hell (1937) and All Hallows’ Eve (1945). It is safe to say that the fullest expression of his mature views is to be found in criticism in The English Poetic Mind (1932), Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933), and The Figure of Beatrice (1943): in poetry and drama in Taliessin through Logres (1938), The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) and Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (the Canterbury Festival play for 1936): and in theology in He Came Down from Heaven (1938) and The Descent of the Dove (1939). Tolkien.ĭuring his lifetime he wrote 30 volumes of poetry, plays, literary criticism, fiction, biographies, reviews and theological arguments. He was also an active member of the Inklings, an informal literary society formed by C. Ĭharles Walter Stansby Williams (September 20, 1886-May 15, 1945) was an English writer, lecturer and literary advisor at the Oxford University Press. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen.his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Charles Williams (1886-1945)
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