Pattern in the Web : The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Roma A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arthurian romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Medievalism--England--History--20th century.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945--Knowledge--Mythology.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945. -- Region of the summer stars.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945. -- Taliessin through Logres.

Local Subjects:

Arthurian romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Medievalism--England--History--20th century.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945--Knowledge--Mythology.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945. -- Region of the summer stars.

Williams, Charles, -- 1886-1945. -- Taliessin through Logres.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Saint Louis : Kent State University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the Arthurian theme, Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars.Of the first volume Williams wrote: "The matter and the style require and reward attention. The poems do not so much tell a story or describe a process as express states or principles of experience. The names and incidents of the Arthurian myth are taken as starting-points for investigation and statement on common and profound experience." In this first full-length study of these poems, they receive, in both matter and style, the close attention that Williams requested.The emphasis in this study is on the quality of these poems as poetry and only secondarily upon their religious content. Although essentially Christian, they are placed within the context of the multifaceted, many-changing forms of recurring myths. Thus they represent one of the few attempts in the twentieth century to encapsulate and age-old and ever-recurring "pattern in the web" in a brilliant structure that is thoroughly modern.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Patterns in the Web""; ""1. The King Stood Crowned""; ""2. The Marble of Exchange""; ""3. A Shoot of Your Own Third Heaven""; ""4. The Moon Waxes and Wanes""; ""5. ""Behold a Radiant Brow""""; ""6. Multiple Levels of Unity""; ""7. The Ways upon the Way""; ""8. Beyond P'o-lu""; ""9. Beyond Carbonek: The Pattern in the Web""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61277-927-1