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Williams, Charles Walter Stansby
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886–1945), poet, novelist, and theological writer. His novels, which have been described as supernatural thrillers, include War in Heaven (1930), Descent into Hell (1937), and All Hallows Eve (1944). Of his theological writings the most important was The Descent of the Dove (1939). His literary criticism included a study of Dante, The Figure of Beatrice (1943). He wrote several verse plays on religious themes, but his most original poetic achievement is perhaps his cycle on the Arthurian legend. Taliessin through Logres (1938), and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944), afterwards reissued in one volume (1974) together with Arthurian Torso, a study of Williams's poetry by his friend C. S. Lewis.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WilliamsCharlesWltrStnsby.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-WilliamsCharlesWltrStnsby.html |
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Williams, Charles Walter Stansby
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886–1945), poet and theological writer. As well as poems, he wrote novels largely devoted to supernatural themes, a play for the Canterbury festival of 1936, and The Descent of the Dove (1939), an unconventional and penetrating study of the Church. He had a concept of romantic love in which the image of the beloved is revealed to the lover, and a literal understanding of substitution, of which the Atonement was the culminating example. He did much to commend Christianity in a Catholic and sacramental form to many who would have been unmoved by conventional apologetic.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-WilliamsCharlesWltrStnsby.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Williams, Charles Walter Stansby." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-WilliamsCharlesWltrStnsby.html |
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