![]() These dense, crystalline, lucid volumes of verse were published together with Arthurian Torso (which contains the prose Figure of Arthur and C.S. Or you could skip it.Īfter mastering the sinuous, agile writing style in Williams’s prose narratives, an adventuresome reader should proceed to his remarkable Arthurian poetry: That’s why I suggest reading this novel last, after you have gotten to know his mature, spiritually edifying style. The evil magus is a charismatic, attractive person. It is his weirdest novel and contains the most disturbing uses of magic without any narrative condemnation. Shadows of Ecstasywas published third but written first. Many critics acclaim it as his best novel. All Hallow’s Evereveals the proximity of the noumenal to the phenomenal. The pacing of events is admirable, with cycles of intensity alternating with passages of vague visionary stasis and tranquil revelation.Ħ. ![]() The characters discuss timeless Christian doctrines in fresh diction, without platitudes. ![]() ![]() ![]() It integrates all his distinctive themes: substitution, simultaneity, silence, serenity, the unity of body and soul, and the power of poetry (Williams once employed the name of its playwright-hero, Peter Stanhope, as a pseudonym). Descent into Hellis CW’s prose tour de force. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |