Poetry Collections

Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, his poetry profound, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, his poetry profound, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, his poetry profound, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Heroes and Kings was designed by Hubert J. Foss, and the wood engravings were made by Norman Janes. Three hundred copies, of which two hundred and fifty were for sale, were printed in the year 1930. Out of print since then, the Charles Williams Society and the Apocryphile Press are proud to present this new edition. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Williams wanted his Arthurian poem to be a universal not just a tale of early-Medieval heroics, but a poem that would use its narrative to portray the human condition, and the world, with the kind of completeness found in Milton’s Paradise Lost or Dante’s Divine Comedy . Charles Williams is perhaps the least well known of the Inklings, the writers’ group based in Oxford which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. In making this collection of Williams’s major Arthurian poetry we have sought to make available again, after several years out of print, all his previously published verse on the abiding subject that dominated his work and life from the early 1900s to his death in 1945. The earliest work, published here for the first time since its original appearance in 1913, is the ‘Pageant Song of Gwent’, which shows Williams thinking about the Arthurian legends even this early. This, along with poems from Heroes and Kings (1930) and Three Plays (1931), comprises all of Williams’s early published work on the subject, and is followed by his mature work, contained in the two major sequences Taliessin Through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944), which form the centre of this collection. The volume includes an introduction by Grevel Lindop (biographer of Charles Williams) and an essay on Williams’s work by Arthurian scholar, John Matthews.

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First published more than thirty years ago, the Arthurian poems included in these two collections have enjoyed critical acclaim-but not wide popularity. "Like the Blake of the Prophetic Books,"W. H. Auden wrote, "Charles Williams has his own mythology which a reader must master." To the thoughtful and discerning reader, however, the effort required is eminently worthwhile. C. S. Lewis has suggested that Williams might be the greatest poet of his time, and Auden added that "the more I read Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars , the more rewarding I find them." Here, in this one unusual volume, the lyric cycle represented by Taliessin and Summer Stars is brought together with two other works, both indispensable to an understanding of the poems. In The Figure of Arthur , his prose study of the Arthurian legend, Williams provides valuable background information on the ancient legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Lewis's commentary Williams and the Arthuriad , suggests an order for reading the poems that establishes a narrative continuity, and draws on notes from Williams himself to help clarify the meaning of the cycle. The Arthurian poems of Charles Williams-complex, sometimes obscure, always challenging-are now available to the wider audience they have so long deserved.

Charles Williams's two cycles of poems, Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars , constitute the major imaginative work about the Grail of the 20th century. This new edition also includes twenty-four of Williams's earlier poems on Arthurian themes from his collection The Advent of Galahad , many never published before, and fragments designed to form a sequel to The Region of the Summer Stars , which appear for the first time.

Long out of print, The Silver Stair is Charles Williams' first published work, as well as his first collection of poems, now once again available from the Apocryphile Press. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, his poetry profound, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

When Taliessin through Logres was published in 1938, it received widespread critical acclaim. Alongside its partner companion The Region of the Summer Stars, it stands as one of the most profound and challenging works in Williams' body of work--and one of the most important to understanding him fully. In this new edition, both Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars are found together, with a new introduction by Williams scholar Sørina Higgins. Taliessin through Logres is designed to reward multiple readings. The poetry is technically virtuosic, musically beautiful, and conceptually complex. It is densely packed with layers of symbolism and rich imagery that are not initially easy to understand, but that scintillate with ever greater brilliance upon repeated readings. --from the Introduction by Sørina Higgins Some of the most fascinating poetry written in our time. Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars contain (Williams') Grail poems, a reworking of the theme of the Holy Grail into a poetic myth of unusual wisdom and contemporary significance. It is a unique handling, a fresh vision, of an old subject-matter which has been almost completely neglected in English literature." --C.P. Crowley The more I read Taliessin through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars, the more rewarding I find them.... Charles Williams has his own mythology which a reader must master. --W.H. Auden