A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writing of Owen Barfield - Softcover

Owen Barfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863152864 ISBN 13: 9780863152863

Publisher: Floris Books, 1999

Synopsis

Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man that C.S. Lewis said could not speak on any subject without illuminating it, the man whose writings have won praise from figures as diverse as T.S. Eliot and Saul Bellow, Walter de la Mare and Howard Nemerov, W.H. Auden and Marshall McLuhan. This comprehensive overview supplements major selections with numerous short supporting passages form the whole corpus of his writings and provides a short glossary of Barfieldian terms and useful primary and secondary bibliographies.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 x 9 trim. LC 98-29555

About the Author:

A respected philosopher, jurist, and student of the nature of language and human consciousness, OWEN BARFIELD’s many books published by Wesleyan include Saving the Appearances (1988), Poetic Diction (1984), and Worlds Apart (1971). He lived in East Sussex, England, at the time of his death in 1997 at the age of 99.

A longtime friend of Barfield’s, G.B. TENNYSON is Professor of English at UCLA, editor of A Carlyle Reader (1984), and author of Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis (Wesleyan, 1989) and other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0863152864
• ISBN 13: 9780863152863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232