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`I believe this volume will give to scholars of Williams expanded vistas from which to view his work, and to the general reader glimpses of Camelot'. MYTHPRINT
Includes Taliessin through Logres and The Regionof the Summer Stars - complex and haunting works which constitute the major imaginative writings about the Grail this century in addition to much previously unpublished material. ... Read more

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The Mother Lode
Expensive, but worth every penny of it.

For more than 30 years, I've had to treasure my one increasingly worn copy of William's Arthurian poetry like the Grail itself. These poems have been far too long out of print, and this edition, edited by David Llewellyn Dodds, has ended the drought at last.

This collection contains nothing less than what is arguably the greatest English language poetry written in the last century (with the possible exception of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"). Endlessly rewarding, each new reading uncovers new depths of meaning, new beauties of language, ever greater profundities, and a richer appreciation of the power of myth to aid in our understanding of our own and others' lives.

No doubt about it, Williams demands our full attention. This is not beach reading! The poems require a thorough grounding in Mallory, Virgil, Dante, and the Bible, a solid background in Medieval history, and at least some familiarity with Welsh mythology, the Kabbalah, Milton and Wordsworth - and that's just for starters. But the effort is worth it. His lines positively glow (I'm amazed I need a light to read them by at night).

Williams' reputation as being "too difficult" is simply not true. He is nowhere as deliberately obscure as Eliot's "The Wasteland", or syntactically tortured as much of James Joyce. Williams does not use an obscure word or difficult phrase without good reason, and never just to be clever. But he can't be read quickly, or just once. He has to be pondered, in the true meaning of that word. Sometimes a single stanza, or even a line, is enough for a day's reading. Trust me, the rewards are there.

What makes this edition especially important is its inclusion of Williams' unpublished Arthurian poetry alongside the full texts of his two published volumes, "Taliessin through Logres" and "The Region of the Summer Stars". The new material, although occasionally uneven in quality, and sometimes more resembling rough drafts rather than completed works, adds immeasurably to one's understanding and appreciation of the more familiar, previously published poems.

This edition does have two annoying (and inexcusable) flaws. First, due to a scribal errorin the text approximately half way down on page 79, the planet Mercury is rendered "Mercy", which is not only the wrong word (it is correctly printed in my 30+ year old Eerdman's edition), but makes no sense. Williams is hard enough to understand as it is without a misprint driving attentive readers crazy trying to decipher an unintelligible line. The second shortcoming is the omission of the endpapers, displaying Williams' map of the Empire, as described in the poems. What makes this omission even more mysterious is that the map is specifically mentioned in the text, on page 161 ("the map ... reproduced as the endpapers of this volume").

Recommended to everyone who loves good poetry or the Arthurian legend.

A Worthy Collection
This is an excellent collection of poems by one of the often overlooked members of the the Inklings. Mr. Dodds' useful introduction and organization of these vibrant poems is very helpful, and it's too bad thatthis book will be read primarily by academics. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1920.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: Correspondence of Charlotte Grenville, Lady Williams Wynn, and Her Three Sons, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., Rt. Hon. Charles Williams Wynn, and Sir Henry Williams Wynn1795-1832; Original Publisher: London, J. Murray; Publication date: 1920; Subjects: Williams-Wynn family ... Read more

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But Spirit Knows it Knows
My review title, as readers of Charles Walter Stansby Williams will recognize, comes from his phrase, "Flesh knows what spirit knows, but spirit knows it knows." After reading those sorts of Williamsisms, one longs for the company of others similarly enlightened (some would say infected) by reading him. The best way I can put it is that reading CW heightens the physical world. What do CW readers know? The same things as everybody else, but they know they know, and as the drug takes effect, as it were, begin to see everywhere the pattern of the glory. That is certainly what you get reading CW, or I do every time I reread War in Heaven or bits of Taliesin or Descent of the Dove. And then myself so longing, by great good luck I came upon this volume of essays.

There are lots of good books of this sort on Lewis, Tolkien, and other writers. Two that come to mind are The Riddle of Joy (on Chesterton and Lewis) and Permanent Things (on Dorothy L. Sayers, Evelyn Waugh and others). But it's rare to find such a collection on Williams. These essays were written for or assembled by the British Charles Williams Society over two decades. The book is as discursive and full of misspellings as these sorts of volumes tend to be, but yet absolutely fascinating. The best bits in such essays are not usually those tending to the main thesis, but the highways and byways getting there. In Eric Routley's essay, when the idea of the Puritans and the idea of Williams meet, it is the idea of the Puritans that changes. He views prose as "passing a pencil" and poetry as "throwing a ball." CW is decidedly in the latter camp, and if you miss a few tosses, it's all the more satisfying when they hit the glove. Huw Mordacai's essay, "Charles Williams and the Occult," fills in far more than I previously knew about his Golden Dawn associations, and Gwen Watkins may have some of us (this reader included) reading R.H. Benson's novels, convinced that R.H.B. and C.W. are twin souls. Many of the authors in this volume are well-known for books published after the 1995 publication date. How can I mention only three of the eighteen essays? What about the other fifteen? They wait for you to join the celebration. ... Read more

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This interdisciplinary study examines the interrelations between the documentary poetics of "Objectivism" in the United States during the 1930s. Focusing on three volumes published by the Objectivist Press in 1934--Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, George Oppen's Discrete Series, and William Carlos William's Collected Poems, 1921-1931--the book examines both photographic and linguistic images, along with criticism, correspondence, transcripts of interviews and lectures, contemporary periodicals and other documentary sources from these years. Reznikoff, Oppen, and Williams each constructed textual objects that aspired to the condition of the photograph, and the successes as well as the failures of that aspiration are the subject of this book. Juxtaposing selected works by these three poets with the camera work of Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, and Alfred Stieglitz, Depression Glass also exposes some of the fundamental affinities between documentary photography and modern poetry as forms of expression. This study challenges some of the critical commonplaces of American modernism by demonstrating how these poets comprised an alternative "tradition" dedicated to a project of social realism that would later become the exclusive territory of prose. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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London : printed for D. Culver, successor to Mr. Lynch, [1775?]. [4],132,[2]p. ; 8° ... Read more