![]() He was a passionate teacher, explicating texts clearly with enthusiasm and reciting massive passages of poetry from memory. Thomas Howard calls his sentence structure “agile” I call it “labyrinthine.” Every sentence is thrilling, dangerous, sinuous, and demanding.īy all accounts, Williams himself was like his writing: charismatic, saintly, loquacious, and inspiring-but complex and confusing. Their obscurity is partly due to his love of esoteric allusions, partly to his creation of a layered mythology, and partly to his sinewy syntax. ![]() ![]() There is no other literature quite like that by Charles Williams: his writings are startling, convoluted, beautiful, unpredictable, and obscure. ![]() This strange mix makes him The Oddest Inkling, and this blog exists to discuss CW’s life, works, ideas, oddities, and excellencies. He was a British poet, novelist, literary critic, editor, lecturer, biographer, Anglican Christian, and occult master. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) is the unjustly neglected third member of the Inklings, after C.S. ![]()
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