One quibble: I would hardly call War in Heaven “Williams’s best-known novel”—surely that honor belongs to Descent into Hell or All Hallows’ Eve. It is not a unified group, but is more akin to the Jewish tradition of debate and exploration. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Williams’s position in the literary world, moreover, was in no sense part of a conventional ascent up the academic ladder. Philosopher Owen Barfield : Of all the Inklings, the group of Oxford scholars that met regularly to discuss Christianity and mythology in the early 1900's, one of the least often memorialized on the Net is Owen Barfield.The other central three -- C.S. On that basis, he terms Williams “a great poet.”. I just discovered this blog, by the way, and I absolutely love it. In the interview just mentioned, Havard tried to explain just how much this hurt Tolkien. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'left';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = '';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Didn’t know til now you had a blog. I would love to hear Fr. Michael Newton’s depiction of Charles Williams’s ‘occult shenanigans’ – a ‘refuge from the pram in the hall’ – called to mind the many conversations I had with Williams’s son Michael when I worked with him in a City bookshop in the year between school and university in the 1970s (LRB, 8 September). In the end, however, both efforts seem failures. Has he chosen worn-out themes for his … The Pope’s project did not seem complete; Williams’ was full but was not accessible.