What is it about?
Williams and Eliot became friends and each influenced the other in many way. At the beginning Eliot was dominant, but later Williams's influence on Eliot became greater.
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Why is it important?
Williams's friendship with Eliot started earlier and was arguably more important than that with the Inklings, apart from C. S. Lewis. Recent biographies and publication of letters have made it easier to trace its development.
Perspectives
Although Williams is much less known than Eliot, the Inklings or W. H. Auden, he is both worth studying in his own right and for his influence on others.
Stephen Barber
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This page is a summary of: Charles Williams and T.S. Eliot: Friends and Rivals, Journal of Inklings Studies, April 2019, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/ink.2019.0024.
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Resources
Metaphysical and Romantic in the Taliessin poems
An analysis of the poetic technique Charles Williams employed in his major poetic achievement, the cycle of Arthurian poems contained in Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars.
Charles Williams as a literary critic
Charles Williams wrote a good deal of literary criticism, which he saw, along with poetry, as his proper work. This paper reviews and discusses his work in this field.
Heraclitus on the way of exchange
Charles Williams used a phrase from the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, which he took from W. B. Yeats, to illustrate his own philosophy of exchange.
People and Places in the Taliessin poems: a register and gazetter
The Taliessin poems of Charles Williams are full of references to people and places. This is a complete list of both, arranged alphabetically, with notes, to assist the reader of these complex but rewarding poems.
Williams and the sea nymph
Charles Williams drew on Virgil for the character of the sea nymph Cymodocea in his poem 'The Last Voyage'. in his Arthurian cycle Taliessin through Logres. The history of this character in Virgil and Williams is explored.
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