num_pages: 231
description: A representative selection from the major writings of the man C. S. Lewis called "the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers."Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man that C.S. Lewis said could not speak on any subject without illuminating it, the man whose writings have won praise from figures as diverse as T.S. Eliot and Saul Bellow, Walter de la Mare and Howard Nemerov, W.H. Auden and Marshall McLuhan. This comprehensive overview supplements major selections with numerous short supporting passages form the whole corpus of his writings and provides a short glossary of Barfieldian terms and useful primary and secondary bibliographies.
language: English
title: A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield
titlecomplete: A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen Barfield
genres: Literature, Philosophy, Poetry
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Wesleyan University Press