Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning
10 best books like Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Owen Barfield): The Place of the Lion, Studies in Words, On Poetry And Poets, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, The Girard Reader, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity": A Biography
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 1573831085 |
As an author, Charles Williams writes stiffly, his stories are strange enough to be nearly inaccessible, and his characters who find clarity start speaking in a way which makes The Fairie Queene look folksy. All that being true, I love this man. After finishing this one I slept not just better, but more...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521398312 |
Two kinds of people will read this book (and some would think they are one and the same--people like me who love the work of C. S. Lewis and will read anything he wrote, and people who love words and how their meanings develop and change over time.
This is a work of literary scholarship that explores...
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0571089836 |
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
| Author | John Drury |
| ISBN | 1846142482 |
For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language.
'Love bade me welcome . . .'
'Teach me my God and King . . .'
George...
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| ISBN | 0156957051 |
In my freshman year of college, I remembered reading Brooks' essay on Keats: A Sylvan Historian, I was completely engulfed with Mr. Brooks interpretation of the poem. It gave me a different perspective on how to further analyze Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn. Moreover, when I read the essay, I felt like I...
| Author | René Girard |
| ISBN | 0824516346 |
I finally decided to read Rene Girard, and all I can fit into a one paragraph review are statements, so let’s just make them bullet points:
Girard thinks like Darwin. I don’t mean that he’s as important a thinker as Darwin was, but that he has a simple but effective mechanism that may...
| Author | Dana Gioia |
| ISBN | 1555973701 |
In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern American mainstream...
When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it diagnosed and named. Beginning as a conversation among four strangers in a barroom...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007590083 |
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.Suitable for tablets. Some special characters may not display correctly on older devices.We recommend that you download...
| Author | George M. Marsden |
| ISBN | 0691153736 |
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book.
George Marsden...
The Meaning of Conservatism
First published in 1980, The Meaning of Conservatism is now recognized as a major contribution to political thought, and the liveliest and most provocative modern statement of the traditional "paleo-conservative" position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives,...
The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
| Author | Diana Pavlac Glyer |
| ISBN | 0873389913 |
Until I read this book, Humphrey Carpenter's Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends, published nearly thirty years ago, was the most comprehensive treatment of the group that I had ever encountered. It wasn't all that comprehensive, being focused mainly on C.S....
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0062517538 |
Despite the title, this book is not about whining nor about inappropriate speech. It's about discovering meaning for oneself in literature. In particular, Buechner looks at specific works of four of his favorite authors (as well as mine) Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mark Twain, Shakespeare and C. K. Chesterton...
| Author | Verlyn Flieger |
| ISBN | 0873387449 |
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories,...
One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends....
| Author | Walker Percy |
| ISBN | 0312254016 |
despite the upchuck-inducing cover of the edition that comes up on goodreads, this is a good book, indeed a good read.
while he's more famous for his novels, i enjoy his essays more. in his novels he always strains for opportunities to wax philosophical and in his essays he finally has free reign...
| Author | Hans Boersma |
| ISBN | 0802865429 |
Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing...
