tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post6905127238765613068..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: Albion Awakening Book ListBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-59288323179408060762018-01-14T03:38:56.788-08:002018-01-14T03:38:56.788-08:00Thanks for the suggestion of another author with w...Thanks for the suggestion of another author with whom I'm not familiar.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-75875996176451115262018-01-13T17:43:31.204-08:002018-01-13T17:43:31.204-08:00Martyn Skinner's The Return of Arthur, a narra...Martyn Skinner's The Return of Arthur, a narrative poem of about 550 pages (1966), might be added. It will be the subject of a post at the Pilgrim in Narnia blog before long.<br /><br />Dale NelsonWurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-67567118614837410912017-12-20T01:04:38.403-08:002017-12-20T01:04:38.403-08:00You're undoubtedly right. I was just meaning t...You're undoubtedly right. I was just meaning that any present day equivalent of this little group wouldn't necessarily need to include a bear to make it complete.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-29048557738842032832017-12-19T19:14:52.005-08:002017-12-19T19:14:52.005-08:00I'm going to say that the bear, along with the...I'm going to say that the bear, along with the other animals at Ransom's house, illustrate the Adamic dominion over nature which stands in quite start contrast to the animals in the experimental labs of N.I.C.E. (and their actions on being freed). It is hard to say that this is not of at least equal importance with the presence and friendship of MacPhee (or rather, that his being a skeptic is no bar to them).<br /><br />It is even harder to say that the bear itself is not more crucial to the actual plot, though one must never mistake plot for meaning.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-35637478063099994782017-12-19T03:12:17.817-08:002017-12-19T03:12:17.817-08:00William - Barfield *certainly* influenced Lewis to...William - Barfield *certainly* influenced Lewis to become a theist, via the debate/ correspondence leading up to Lewis's conversion that Lewis (in Surprised by Joy) nicknamed The Great War. <br /><br />Beyond that, Barfield did not think he influenced Lewis, certainly not wrt Lewis's Christian writings, and probably not wrt his fiction. <br /><br />Indeed, after Lewis became Christian, Barfield said that they never again had a deep substantive discussion on First Things (which saddened Barfield, but Lewis absolutely refused to engage). <br /><br />However...<br /><br />All the above is at the 'materialist' level of analysis, in terms of perceptible spoken and written material - but it is possible to see Barfield as having had a subtler and pervasive spiritual influence on Lewis and Tolkien, and the phenomenon of The Inklings; and this is a line I am actively pursuing<br /><br />http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-next-step-in-inklings-studies.html Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-41762341652800996302017-12-19T03:02:28.353-08:002017-12-19T03:02:28.353-08:00Bruce, do you think Barfield's ideas influence...Bruce, do you think Barfield's ideas influenced Lewis, especially in the more magical aspects of the Narnia stories?William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-19185423095917391202017-12-19T02:32:46.247-08:002017-12-19T02:32:46.247-08:00I have written about several other authors here (e...I have written about several other authors here (eg John Michell) but would only wish to add the name of Owen Barfield, who was directly concerned with The Matter of Albion over a writing career of half a century - perhaps most directly in Unancestral Voice and some essays in Romanticism Comes of Age and The Rediscovery of Meaning. <br /><br />For me, Barfield's 'prescription' of 'what we need to do' is the most convincing of all - although I should make clear it is not easy to understand the depth and profundity of his contribution (it took me some years); which is why I have recently made a blog trying to 're-explain' him in a more accessible fashion, <br /><br />http://owenbarfieldblog.blogspot.co.uk/<br /><br />and intend to publish a book on the subject. <br /><br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-83585709959497722522017-12-18T15:19:55.668-08:002017-12-18T15:19:55.668-08:00Some excellent suggestions, John. I really enjoyed...Some excellent suggestions, John. I really enjoyed Rosemary Sutcliff's books when I was a boy. I'm trying to get my son to read them but it's hard to get him to read anything at the moment! Ditto Alan Garner though, as you seem to be implying (though you may not be), the first three more than The Owl Service which didn't really 'take' with me.<br /><br />I've not heard of Catherine Fisher which is good. That's the point of asking other people their opinion so one can make new discoveries.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-13257467926657939062017-12-18T14:24:57.793-08:002017-12-18T14:24:57.793-08:00Great choices, William, and superbly put. I'd ...Great choices, William, and superbly put. I'd add 'Religion and the Rebel' by Colin Wilson, 'A Glastonbury Romance' by John Cowper Powys, Rosemary Sutcliff's late Roman/Arthurian duo, 'The Lantern Bearers' and 'Sword at Sunset', and Alan Garner's first three books - 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen', 'Moon of Gomrath' and 'Elidor' for their mythic charge and imaginative intensity. Also pretty much anything by Catherine Fisher - especially 'Corbenic', perhaps - wonderfully rich and imaginative children's/teen fiction set often around the England/Wales border. Fertile ground indeed.John Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13951246561259007162noreply@blogger.com