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Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age - A Biography ; £ ; FREE delivery 2 - 5 December.

This, the first full-length biography of the most neglected of the four major Inklings, is both welcome and a milestone long overdue.

A book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.

Owen Barfield – philosopher, author, poet and critic – was a founding member of the Inklings, the private Oxford society that included the leading literary.

Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: a Biography.

A book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century....

Owen Barfield

A new edition of Simon Blaxland De Lange&#;s biography, Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age, is now available from Temple Lodge Publishing.

About the book

Simon Blaxland-de Lange’s biography – the first on Owen Barfield to be published – was written with the active cooperation of Barfield himself who, before his death in , gave numerous interviews to the author and shared a large quantity of his papers and manuscripts.

The fruit of this collaboration is a book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. It studies the influences on Barfield by the Romantic poet Coleridge and the philosopher Rudolf Steiner (founder of anthroposophy), and elaborates on Barfield’s profound personal connection with C.S.

Lewis.

The book also features a biographical sketch in his own words (based on personally conducted interviews), and describes Barfield’s strong relationship with North America and his dual pro