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A Barfield Sampler

Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield

By: Owen Barfield

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A Barfield Sampler

Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield

By: Owen Barfield

This is a collection of the fiction and poetry of one of the twentieth centurys most influential and significant thinkers. Barfield is known widely for his explorations of human consciousness, the history of language, the origins of poetic effect, and the interaction of the disciplines, especially literature and the hard sciences. This book presents Barfield as a writer of imaginative literature. In the stories, one finds both post-war displacement and Bloomsburian ironies. In the two short novels, Barfield gives us two stunning versions of the Apocalypse. In his poetry he explores the varieties of human experience, often in radical relation to the past. A seemingly conventional poetic introduces explosive theological and sexual issues, confrontations with urban despair and fragmentation. Barfields creative work is original, daring, and prophetic. His voice heralds a new age of consciousness of which our time is becoming increasingly aware.

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SUNY Press

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ISBN 10

0791415880

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9780791415887

A Barfield Reader

Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield

By: Owen Barfield

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A Barfield Reader

Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield

By: Owen Barfield

A representative selection from the major writings of the man C. S. Lewis called “the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.”

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236

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819563617

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9780819563613

The Tower

Major Poems and Plays

By: Owen Barfield

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The Tower

Major Poems and Plays

By: Owen Barfield

Owen Barfield is known primarily for his many publications on the evolution of consciousness and the essential reframing of cultural history that results from this theory. At the center of his philosophy is a deep analysis of mythology and poetics that draws from Coleridge, Steiner, and others to reveal the noetic role of the poetic principle and its salient shifts that map the evolution of conscious experience. A member of the Oxford Inklings group, Barfield’s first published book, The Silver Trumpet (1925), is the first märchen, or fantasy story, published by any of them. Despite the influence Barfield exerted on contemporary authors such as Howard Nemerov and Saul Bellow, the biggest gaps in the published corpus of the Philosopher of Poetry are most of the major poems and poetic dramas he wrote according to his theories that place poetics at the core of conscious experience itself. This current publication remedies this absence by presenting five striking literary pieces composed throughout Barfield’s lifetime. The Tower, an introspective narrative poem, is the ‘great work’ of Barfield’s youth; Medea, a mythopoeic drama, is seemingly his last major poetic and dramatic work. Between these two are the mythopoeic narrative poem Riders on Pegasus, a trilogy of Anthroposophical mystery plays Angels at Bay, and the light-hearted extended poem The Unicorn. Readers of Barfield’s philosophical works and Inklings enthusiasts will find much to admire and enjoy in this volume.

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331

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Parlor Press LLC

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1643171747

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9781643171746

History in English Words

By: Owen Barfield

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History in English Words

By: Owen Barfield

A classic historical excursion through the English language. Owen Barfield's original and thought-provoking works over three-quarters of a century made him a legendary cult figure. This popular book provides a brief, brilliant history of those who have spoken the Indo-European tongues. It is illustrated throughout by current English words - whose derivation from other languages, whose history in use and changes of meaning - record and unlock the larger history.

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SteinerBooks

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0940262118

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9780940262119

Saving the Appearances

A Study in Idolatry

By: Owen Barfield

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Saving the Appearances

A Study in Idolatry

By: Owen Barfield

Reprint. Originally published: London: Faber & Faber, 1957.

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Wesleyan University Press

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081956205X

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9780819562050

Poetic Diction

A Study in Meaning

By: Owen Barfield

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Poetic Diction

A Study in Meaning

By: Owen Barfield

Barfield discusses poetry's meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism. Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective standards of criticism and a theory of poetic diction in broader philosophical considerations on the relation of world and thought. His profound musings explore concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, including the nature of metaphor, poetic effect, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning. CONTRIBUTOR: Howard Nemerov.

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Wesleyan University Press

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081956026X

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9780819560261

History in English Words

By: Owen Barfield

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By: Owen Barfield

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The Tower

Major Poems and Plays

By: Owen Barfield

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Major Poems and Plays

By: Owen Barfield

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Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis

By: Owen Barfield,G. B. Tennyson

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Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis

By: Owen Barfield,G. B. Tennyson

C. S. Lewis, theologian and literary scholar, and Owen Barfield, philosopher and London solicitor, were longtime friends. G. B. Tennyson, editor of these papers by Barfield on Lewis, believes this relationship of "two immense intellects" "one of the most absorbing literary friendships of the twentieth century." Lewis called Barfield the "wisest and best of my unofficial teachers"; to Barfield, C. S. Lewis was "the absolutely unforgettable friend." They had been friends and disputants from their Oxford days after the First World War until Lewis's death forty years later. Barfield was his solicitor and trustee in the later years. This is vintage Barfield as well as an astute appraisal of C. S. Lewis's personality and beliefs. In essays, interviews, several poems, and a fragment of fiction, Barfield writes of "the individual essence" of C. S. Lewis, his brilliance, his "absolute honesty of mind," his lack of interest in collectivities-races, nations, movements-his interest only in the individual soul, his "irrepressible bent for comedy," his "keenness in pursuing any point of difference or doubt to its final conclusion." Barfield writes about himself, also, as a way of understanding his friend: "In an argument we always, both of us, were arguing for truth, not for victory, and arguing for truth, not for comfort." Both trusted the imagination, but they differed on its relation to knowledge-"[Lewis] was in love with the imagination" and "to search for any link between myth and fact was for him a crucial error." C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield had in common an awareness "of the silliness and the triviality of the time" and the conviction that the contemporary loss of the idea of sin was a disaster. But they also disagreed from the first, as Barfield explains, especially about theology, about the nature of God, the process of history. Lewis saw revelation as finished; Barfield saw it as a "continuing process," as he did human history. Lewis considered hierarchy necessary and healthy; Barfield regarded it as an evolutionary phase. Although C. S. Lewis died in 1963, Barfield's reflections on their relationship and analysis of its meaning ended only with his own death, in his hundredth year, in 1997.

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Harwood Academic Publishers

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1597311006

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9781597311007

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A Barfield Sampler

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A Barfield Reader

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The Tower

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History in English Words

History in English Words

Saving the Appearances

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Poetic Diction

Poetic Diction

History in English Words

History in English Words

The Tower

The Tower

Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis

Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis

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