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Owen Barfield: First and Last Inklings |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE INKLINGS |
| Author: George B. Tennyson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 5,716 Words, 33,507 Characters |
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In 1919 two relatively new Oxford undergraduates met each other for the first time over tea in the quarters of a fellow student. They could not know that they were making literary history. They could not even know that the meeting was the beginning of a lifelong friendship that would be both social and intensely intellectual. But in retrospect tit is clear that the meeting was a notable literary event as well as the beginning of a long friendship - for it was the first encounter of two extraordinary minds. The two students were Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis.
C.S. Lewis went on to become an enormously popular writer of fiction, theology, and literary criticism, read by millions throughout the world. Barfield is one of the most original and penetrating thinkers of our time, known ...
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...ong the Inklings - Barfield, Lewis, Tolkien, and Charles Williams - as embodying a broadly shared outlook that finds its "most fundamental version" in the work of Owen Barfield.
Barfield, then, the wisest and best of Lewis's unofficial teachers, turns out even in absentia to have been also the wisest and best of the teachers of the Inklings. And of us as well, if we will but let him. vbcrlf
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