Number of days to the launch of 'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling"
Researched and written by Grevel Lindop
You can pre-order (£25) - Click on the title above.
Day 20
WH Auden's long poem [The Double Man] (in UK [New Year Letter]) was inspired by Charles Williams's book [The Descent of the Dove].
Day 19
Charles Williams' wife Michal saw 1st performance of his play [Terror of Light] & said 'I think it is dreadful!' CW rewrote it over the weekend.
Day 18
Charles Williams thought WW2 could be affected by his poems: 'Must write poem about archangels destroying octopuses, ensure Macarthur conquers in East'
Day 17
Payment for Charles Williams's play [House of the Octopus] went to cover dental work: he said, 'That play will always mean teeth to me!'
Day 16
It was Anne Ridler who first proposed the idea of a spiritual group or society of Charles Williams's followers.
Day 15
Charles Williams' 'dearest male friend' was writer DHS Nicholson, editor of The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
Day 14
1948 C.S Lewis nightmare: chased by lions; 'A figure approached — touched my hand — "Hallo Jack!"—it was Charles. And I knew everything was ALL RIGHT.'
Day 13
After conversation about some other poet, Charles Williams said to his wife "I say, you won't ever write my biography, will you?"
Day 12
Having failed to get OUP to publish Dylan Thomas's poems, Charles Williams wrote a reference suporting DT for a Royal Literary Fund grant.
Day 11
Charles Williams told Anne Ridler his 1935 biog [Rochester] 'shall not be about John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester at all. It will be about me.’
WH Auden's long poem [The Double Man] (in UK [New Year Letter]) was inspired by Charles Williams's book [The Descent of the Dove].
Day 19
Charles Williams' wife Michal saw 1st performance of his play [Terror of Light] & said 'I think it is dreadful!' CW rewrote it over the weekend.
Day 18
Charles Williams thought WW2 could be affected by his poems: 'Must write poem about archangels destroying octopuses, ensure Macarthur conquers in East'
Day 17
Payment for Charles Williams's play [House of the Octopus]
Day 16
It was Anne Ridler who first proposed the idea of a spiritual group or society of Charles Williams's followers.
Day 15
Charles Williams' 'dearest male friend' was writer DHS Nicholson, editor of The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
Day 14
1948 C.S Lewis nightmare: chased by lions; 'A figure approached — touched my hand — "Hallo Jack!"—it was Charles. And I knew everything was ALL RIGHT.'
Day 13
After conversation about some other poet, Charles Williams said to his wife "I say, you won't ever write my biography, will you?"
Day 12
Having failed to get OUP to publish Dylan Thomas's poems, Charles Williams wrote a reference suporting DT for a Royal Literary Fund grant.
Day 11
Charles Williams told Anne Ridler his 1935 biog [Rochester]
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