The Celian Moment & Other Essays

"He is best known by his criticism. I have learned much from it." -C. S. Lewis

Charles Williams (1886-1945), friend of T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis and admired by W. H. Auden, was a versatile man of letters. He wrote supernatural thrillers, plays, theology and journalism but he saw poetry and criticism as being his real work. This is a new collection of his literary essays, taken from books, pamphlets and periodicals long out of print. The title essay develops Williams's theory of poetry but ...