Barfield Sampler Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield

Name: Barfield Sampler Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield
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ISBN: 9780791415887

ISBN-10: 0791415880

ISBN-13: 9780791415887

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Authors: Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas

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This is a collection of the fiction and poetry of one of the twentieth century's most influential and significant thinkers. Barfield is known widely for his explorations of human consciousness, the history of language, the origins of poetic effect, and the interaction of the disciplines, especially literature and the hard sciences. This book presents Barfield as a writer of imaginative literature.In the stories, one finds both post-war displacement and Bloomsburian ironies. In the two short novels, Barfield gives us two stunning versions of the Apocalypse. In his poetry he explores the varieties of human experience, often in radical relation to the past. A seemingly conventional poetic…

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 9/14/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 181
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



Poetry


Day


Sonnet: Once, once, this evening, let me say: I love you!


Translation from Petrarch: Amor, ed io si pien di meraviglia



Sonnet: How shall I work that she may not forget


The Silent Piano (For E.B.)



Bad Day


Song of the Bakerloo


The Song They Sing


Flirting


Girl in Tube


A Visit to Beatrice


Can Light Be Golden?


Pollaiuolo's Apollo and Daphne


Piero di Cosimo's The Death of Procris


Sonnet: I am much inclined towards a life of ease


The Angry Boffin



Emeritus (on not trying to publish verse)


Fifty-Three


Al Fresco (on Modern Poetry)


The Queen's Beast (1954)


Escape


You're Wrong!


Funeral Oration


Medusa


Song of Anger




Hagar and Ishmael



The Spy



Ishmael


Gender


The Merman


Enlightenment


At a Promenade Concert


The Milkmaid and the Unicorn


Video Meliora


Sonnet: Where can we hope to swim in 1ove's bright wave?


"How dolefully you raked into a blaze"


Sonnet: When the too-muchness of this angry trade


The Song of Pity or The Compassionate Society


Speech by a Gadarene Cabinet Minister


Sonnet: You said, and not as one exaggerating


The Sonnet and Its Uses


Rust


In



The Coming of Whitsun



Washing of Feet


Sacrament



Beatitude


A Meditation


From Orpheus: A Verse Drama Act II (lines 89-259)


Closing lines from "Riders on Pegasus"


Prose


Short Stories


Dope


The Devastated Area



Two Prophetic Nouvelles


The Rose on the Ash-Heap (from the novel in manuscript English People)


Night Operation


Afterword


Owen Barfield


Notes on the Poetry


Index