BARFIELD, Owen (Arthur)

BARFIELD, Owen (Arthur)
(1898-)
   UK writer and philologist whose first book, The Silver Trumpet (1925), was a fantasy. He was long involved with the Anthroposophical philosophy of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). A member of the Inklings group and a long-time associate of C.S.LEWIS, OB contributed to Essays Presented to Charles Williams (anth 1947), which Lewis had organized. As G.A.L.Burgeon he wrote an sf novel, This Ever Diverse Pair (1950). Later works include Worlds Apart (1963), described as "A Dialogue of the 1960s", and Unancestral Voice (1968).
   About the author: "C.S.Lewis, Owen Barfield and the Modern Myth" by W.D. Norwood Jr in Midwest Quarterly 4(2) (1967).

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