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Barfield has been known as "the first and last Inkling."He had a profound influence on C. S. Lewis and, through his books The Silver Trumpet and Poetic Diction (dedicated to Lewis), an appreciable effect on J. R. R. Tolkien, who made use of the ideas in his writings with the theme of decline and fall in Middle-earth. [2]
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
More recently, John Stubley has made use of the term as part of the Centre for Social Poetry. [6] Stubley expands the idea to include what Owen Barfield describes as poetic “effect” [7] – which distinguishes between the poetic form of words on a piece of paper, and the poetic effect of a “felt change of consciousness”. [8]
The Inkling Owen Barfield had a theory of language, described in his 1928 book Poetic Diction, that interested Tolkien. Indeed, according to C. S. Lewis, Barfield's theory changed Tolkien's entire outlook.
He comments that the TCBS anticipated the Inklings, and argues that Tolkien, as much as his friend C. S. Lewis, was vital to the Inklings, as was Owen Barfield's Poetic Diction. Birzer criticises the style of invisible footnoting, combined with the abbreviations of the sources, which in his view made the book exceptionally "unfriendly".
[T 4] [20] Books by Tolkien's fellow-Inkling Owen Barfield contributed to his world-view of decline and fall, particularly the 1928 Poetic Diction. [21] H. G. Wells's description of the subterranean Morlocks in his 1895 science fiction novel The Time Machine are suggestive of Gollum. [3]
Charles A. Huttar is an emeritus professor of English at Hope College, known for his work on the Inklings including J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams. [1] He has twice won the Mythopoeic Society 's Scholarship Award.
A joint poem by C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield called "Abecedarium Philosophicum" was published on 30 November 1933. [3] Dorothy Sayers published two of her poems, Hymn in Contemplation of Sudden Death and Epitaph for a Young Musician, in the magazine. [4] W. H.