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by Owen Barfield
ISBN: 9781597311014
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Format: HB
Price: £22.95
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| Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis, theologian and literary scholar, and Owen Barfield, philosopher and London solicitor, were longtime friends. G.B. Tennyson, editor of these papers by Barfield on Lewis, believes this relationship of "two immense intellects" "one of the most absorbing literary friendships of the twentieth century." This is vintage Barfield as well as an astute appraisal of Lewis’s personality and beliefs. Although Lewis died in 1963, Barfield’s reflections on their relationship and analysis of its meaning ended only with his own death, in his hundredth year, in 1997.
"Though his memories of Lewis go back seventy years, Barfield is no imitation Boswell. In his sharp questioning, in his original analogies and metaphors he rivals Lewis, especially when exposing contradictions in his subject’s attitudes to myth and imagination, history, and cultural evolution. His honesty in answering his
own questions is particularly impressive when he assesses his own influence upon Lewis. Even on such well worn topics as Lewis’s domestic and spiritual life, Barfield has original things to say." — Lionel Adey | | |
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