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This is a new collection of Williams's literary essays, taken from books, pamphlets and periodicals long out of print. The title essay develops William's theory of poetry but is also a covert homage to the woman who was his second and unacknowledged love. These essays cover nearly all his literary interests and the final one shows his sympathy for left-wing political ideas arising from his own poverty-ridden childhood. All shed light not only on their subject but also on Williams himself. Williams projected a collection of his essays with this title but did not in fact complete one. The editor has provided references for Williams's numerous literary allusions.

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This collection is therefore well worthwhile for its best pieces and its general depiction of CW's level of work. Bruce Charlton Notion Club Papers. ; This book is a collection of lost or forgotten essays by Williams edited with an introduction by Stephen Barber. Beginning with an essay on the role of criticism Williams argues that what comes to us in literature, especially poetry, is more real than life, and the job of the critic is to relate the two 'We know things first of all in life, and we know them again more fully and more clearly in poetry.' The Rt Revd Lord Harries of Pentregarth, former Bishop of Oxford. Church Times 2.6.2017; Stephen Barber's enjoyable and rewarding new selection offers the reader - whether unacquainted, familiar, or assiduous collector - something more deliberate and weighty than just 'anything by Williams', however attractive even that might have been. And his fine, deft 16-page introduction is so engaging you may not at first consciously reflect on the depths of its thought and erudition. David Dodds, Eclectic Orthodoxy blog July 2017.

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Charles Williams (1886-1945), friend of T.S.Eliot and C.S.Lewis and admired by W.H.Auden, was a versatile man of letters. He wrote supernatural thrillers, plays, theology and journalism but he saw poetry and criticism as being his real work. He was a member of the Inklings' circle in Oxford during the Second World War.The Editor, Stephen Barber, was for many years Treasurer of the Charles Williams Society and has written several articles on the writer.

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