Special Collection: The Works of Charles Williams (1886-1945)
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (September 20, 1886 - May 15, 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and a member of the Inklings.
Information on Charles Williams:
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Bibliography
Novels
- War in Heaven (1930)
- Many Dimensions (1930)
- The Place of the Lion (1931)
- The Greater Trumps (1932)
- Shadows of Ecstasy (1933)
- Descent into Hell (1937)
- All Hallows' Eve (1945)
Plays
- The Chapel of the Thorn (1912)
- The Masque of the Manuscript (1927)
- The Masque of Perusal (1929)
- The Masque of the Termination of Copyright (1930)
- A Myth of Shakespeare (1930)
- A Myth of Francis Bacon (1930)
- Three Plays (1929-1931)
- The Rite of the Passion (1929)
- The Chaste Wanton (1930)
- The Witch (1931)
- Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936)
- Seed of Adam (1937)
- Judgement at Chelmsford (1939)
- The Death of Good Fortune (1939)
- The House by the Stable (1939)
- Terror of Light (1940) *
- Grab and Grace (1941)
- The Three Temptations (1942) *
- House of the Octopus (1945)
Poetry
- The Silver Stair (1912)
- Poems of Conformity (1917)
- Divorce (1920)
- Windows of Night (1924)
- Heroes and Kings (1930)
- Taliessin through Logres (1938) *
- The Region of the Summer Stars (1944)
Theology
- He Came Down from Heaven (1938) *
- The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church (1939)
- Witchcraft (1941) *
- The Forgiveness of Sins (1942)
Literary Criticism
- Poetry at Present (1930)
- The English Poetic Mind (1932) *
- Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933) *
- The Figure of Beatrice (1943)
- Arthurian Torso (1948) Contains the posthumous fragment of The Figure of Arthur by Charles Williams and a commentary on the Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams by C.S. Lewis.
Biography
- Bacon (1933)
- A Short Life of Shakespeare (1933)
- James I (1934) *
- Rochester (1935)
- Queen Elizabeth (1936) *
- Henry VII (1937)
- Stories of Great Names (1937)
- Flecker of Dean Close (1946)
As Editor
- Poems Of Home And Overseas (1921)
- A Book Of Victorian Narrative Verse (1927) *
- The New Book Of English Verse (1935)