Owen Barfield’s Poetry Drama and Fiction

<p>Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T. S. Eliot J. R. R. Tolkien W. H. Auden Howard Nemerov and Saul Bellow and <em>Owen Barfield's Poetry Drama and Fiction</em> is the first book to comprehensively explore and assess the literary career of the fourth Inkling Owen Barfield. It examines his major poems plays and novels with special attention both to his development over a seventy-year literary career and to the manifold ways in which his work responds with power originality and insight to modernist London the nuclear age and the dawning era of environmental crisis. With this volume it is now possible to place into clear view the full career and achievement of Owen Barfield who has been called the British Heidegger the first and last Inkling and the last Romantic.</p><p><b>Jeffrey Hipolito has been awarded the Owen Barfield Award for Excellence for 2024.</b></p>