Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age

"Owen Barfield-philosopher, author, poet, and critic-was a founding member of the Inklings, the private Oxford society that included the leading literary figures C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Lewis, who was greatly affected by Barfield during their long friendship, wrote of their many heated debates: 'I think he changed me a good deal more than I him. ' Simon Blaxland-de Lange's biography (the first to be published on Owen Barfield) was written with the active cooperation of Barfield himself who, before his death in 1997, gave numerous interviews to the author and shared many of his papers and manuscripts. The fruit of this collaboration is a book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century"-