Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work

Hadfield, A. M. (Alice Mary)

ISBN 10: 0195033116 / ISBN 13: 9780195033113

Published by Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1983

About this Item

xiii + 268 pages (approx.), with original dust jacket. A major biography and critical study of Charles Williams, issued by OUP and widely cited in scholarship on the Inklings and Williams. Hadfield offers a full exploration of Williams?s life, from his upbringing and early publishing career through his involvement with the Inklings and his work as poet, novelist, and theologian. The book covers the Arthurian poems, the novels, the theological writings and plays, and examines themes such as co-inherence, romantic theology, and Williams?s view of the relation between imagination and spiritual truth. Internally clean and bright throughout; no marks, underlining, or highlighting. Tight, square binding; pages crisp; appears unread or barely handled. Dust jacket unclipped and bright, with no tears, chips, or significant wear; colours sharp; spine not faded.
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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charles Williams: An Exploration of His Life and Work
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195033116
• ISBN 13: 9780195033113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, critic, and theologian, Charles Williams was the author of nearly forty books. Among his close friends were such literary lions as W.H. Auden, Dorothy Sayers, and T.S. Eliot. In this, the first full biography of Williams, Alice Mary Hadfield--a close friend and colleague--provides a sympathetic portrait and sheds new light on the essentially Christian worldview that charged his writing. "Likely to be the definitive biography."--Clyde S. Kilby, Wheaton College