The Magical World of the Inklings: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield - Softcover

Knight, Gareth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908011017 ISBN 13: 9781908011015

Publisher: Skylight Press, 2010

Synopsis

"Because of the combination of information, understanding and insight on which it is founded, The Magical World of the Inklings is more than outstanding. It is not in the same league with anything else I have come across." - Owen Barfield The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield have had a profound impact on the contemporary world. Together they were The Inklings, a small literary group of friends who set out to explore the 'mythopoeic' or myth-making element in imaginative fiction. The Magical World of the Inklings reveals how each of these writers created a 'magical world' which initiated the reader into hidden and powerful realms of the creative imagination.

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Review:

"Because of the combination of information, understanding and insight on which it is founded, The Magical World of the Inklings is more than outstanding. It is not in the same league with anything else I have come across." - Owen Barfield. "It is only recently that the full play of Lewis's neo-Platonism is reaching a wider public. Nobody has more revealingly shown the occultic and mythical character of this world-view, and its influence on Lewis's fiction, than did Gareth Knight in his superb book The Magical World of the Inklings." - Dr Andrew Walker, Director of the Centre for Theology and Culture, King's College London.

About the Author:

Gareth Knight is one of the world's best known authorities on modern esoteric studies and the Western Mystery Tradition, with a career as an author, publisher and lecturer which spans more than 50 years. His books include "A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism", "Magic and the Power of the Goddess" and a biography of Dion Fortune, "Dion Fortune and the Inner Light".

About this edition

• Publisher: Skylight Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1908011017
• ISBN 13: 9781908011015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304