Special Collection: The Works of Charles Williams (1886-1945)

Charles Walter Stansby Williams (September 20, 1886 - May 15, 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and a member of the Inklings.

Information on Charles Williams:

• Wikipedia
• The Charles Williams Society
• The Oddest Inkling

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Bibliography

Novels

1. War in Heaven (1930)
2. Many Dimensions (1930)
3. The Place of the Lion (1931)
4. The Greater Trumps (1932)
5. Shadows of Ecstasy (1933)
6. Descent into Hell (1937)
7. All Hallows' Eve (1945)

Plays

1. The Chapel of the Thorn (1912)
2. The Masque of the Manuscript (1927)
3. The Masque of Perusal (1929)
4. The Masque of the Termination of Copyright (1930)
5. A Myth of Shakespeare (1930)
6. A Myth of Francis Bacon (1930)
7. Three Plays (1929-1931)
8. The Rite of the Passion (1929)
9. The Chaste Wanton (1930)
10. The Witch (1931)
11. Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936)
12. Seed of Adam (1937)
13. Judgement at Chelmsford (1939)
14. The Death of Good Fortune (1939)
15. The House by the Stable (1939)
16. Terror of Light (1940)
17. Grab and Grace (1941)
18. The Three Temptations (1942)
19. House of the Octopus (1945)

Poetry

1. The Silver Stair (1912)
2. Poems of Conformity (1917)
3. Divorce (1920)
4. Windows of Night (1924)
5. Heroes and Kings (1930)
6. Taliessin through Logres (1938)
7. The Region of the Summer Stars (1944)

Theology

1. He Came Down from Heaven (1938) ^*
2. The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church (1939)
3. Witchcraft (1941)
4. The Forgiveness of Sins (1942)

Literary Criticism

1. Poetry at Present (1930)
2. The English Poetic Mind (1932)
3. Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind (1933)
4. The Figure of Beatrice (1943)
5. Arthurian Torso (1948) Contains the posthumous fragment of The Figure of Arthur by Charles Williams and a commentary on the Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams by C.S. Lewis.

Biography

1. Bacon (1933)
2. A Short Life of Shakespeare (1933)
3. James I (1934)
4. Rochester (1935)
5. Queen Elizabeth (1936)
6. Henry VII (1937)
7. Stories of Great Names (1937)
8. Flecker of Dean Close (1946)

As Editor

1. Poems Of Home And Overseas (1921)
2. A Book Of Victorian Narrative Verse (1927) ^*
3. The New Book Of English Verse (1935)