The Pattern in the Web: Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams

Roma A. King, Jr.

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 June 1990
Pages
200
ISBN
9780873384124

The Pattern in the Web: Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams

Roma A. King, Jr.

Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the Arthurian theme,
Taliessin Through Logres
and
The Region of the Summer Stars . Of the first volume Williams wrote:
The matter and the style require and reward attention. The poems do not so much tell a story or describe a process as express states or principles of experience. The names and incidents of the Arthurian myth are taken as starting-points for investigation and statement on common and profound experiences . In this first full-length study of these poems, they receive, in both matter and style, the close attention that Williams requested. The emphasis in this study is on the quality of these poems as poetry and only secondarily upon their religious content. Although essentially Christian, they are placed within the context of the multifaceted, many-changing forms of recurring myths. Times they represent one of the few attempts in the twentieth century to encapsulate an age-old ever-recurring
pattern in the web
in a brilliant structure that is thoroughly modern.

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