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Charles Williams (British writer) Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he moved to Oxford with the university press for which he worked and was buried there following his ...
Learn about Charles Williams (1886-1945), a prolific and influential writer of poetry, fiction, criticism, and theology. Explore his life, works, themes, and legacy as a member of the Oxford University Press and the Inklings.
Charles Walter Stansby Williams is probably best known, to those who have heard of him, as a leading member (albeit for a short time) of the Oxford literary group, the "Inklings", whose chief figures were C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien.
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Learn about Charles Williams, a prolific and influential writer of fantasy, poetry, theology and criticism, and a member of the Oxford literary group, the Inklings. Explore his novels, essays, biography, and library, and join the society for events and news.
Charles Williams has 108 books on Goodreads with 38999 ratings. Charles Williams’s most popular book is Descent into Hell.
Williams was both an influential Anglican theologian and deeply involved in the occult – a member of a secret Rosicrucian fraternity, The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, and in contact with magicians of the Stella Matutina, an occult group descended from the more famous Order of the Golden Dawn.
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He was an eloquent philosopher of human and divine love whose own romantic life was often deeply troubled. Williams's talents were evident in many genres, including poetry, drama, fiction, biography, poetic theory, theology, literary essays, and book reviews.
