Charles Williams
Born
in London, England
September 20, 1886
Died
May 15, 1945
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Genre
Descent into Hell
218 editions
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1937
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War in Heaven
12 editions
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1930
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The Place of the Lion
114 editions
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1931
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All Hallows' Eve
98 editions
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1945
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Many Dimensions
78 editions
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published
1930
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The Greater Trumps
91 editions
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1932
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The Descent of the Dove
30 editions
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1939
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Shadows of Ecstasy
52 editions
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1933
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Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso
by
7 editions
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1974
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The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
21 editions
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1943
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“An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.”
― War in Heaven
― War in Heaven
“Why was this bloody world created?"
"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever."
" [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative.”
― War in Heaven
"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively to know God and to glorify Him forever."
" [...] The two answers are not, of course, necessarily alternative.”
― War in Heaven
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered a good deal of verse into itself; so that it has become a great forest where, with long leagues of changing green between them, strange episodes of poetry have taken place. Thus in one part there are lovers of a midsummer night, or by day a duke and his followers, and in another men behind branches so that the wood seems moving, and in another a girl separated from her two lordly young brothers, and in another a poet listening to a nightingale but rather dreaming richly of the grand art than there exploring it, and there are other inhabitants, belonging even more closely to the wood, dryads, fairies, an enchanter's rout. The forest itself has different names in different tongues- Westermain, Arden, Birnam, Broceliande; and in places there are separate trees named, such as that on the outskirts against which a young Northern poet saw a spectral wanderer leaning, or, in the unexplored centre of which only rumours reach even poetry, Igdrasil of one myth, or the Trees of Knowledge and Life of another. So that indeed the whole earth seems to become this one enormous forest, and our longest and most stable civilizations are only clearings in the midst of it.”
― The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
― The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
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