For the past few weeks, The Oddest Inkling has hosted a guest post for each poem in Charles Williams’s 1938 collection Taliessin through Logres. In case you missed them, here’s the whole list of posts.
Speaking of Arthurian literature, here’s a great post by David Russell Mosley on why the King Arthur legends have been such a fascination for writers and readers for so long.
Just in time for Memorial Day, Rob Stroud from Mere Inkling published this very moving piece about Geoffrey Bache Smith, a poet, World War I veteran, and one of J. R. R. Tolkien’s first writer friends.
In that same post, Rob recommended this half-hour documentary about Tolkien’s early life, his service in the First World War, and how the war effected his writing. I recommend it too.
Not one but three recordings of W. H. Auden, the first of which is him discussing Charles Williams’s novel All Hallows’ Eve.
I was in that very bookshop (Daunts) some weeks ago. Gorgeous picture!
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Really! I found that image on a stock photo site, but the photographer didn’t give any information about where the picture was taken. That’s cool!
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