About this book
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' poetry was mainly influenced by his deeply held Christian faith, he also studied mysticism and had a great knowledge of and respect for the ideas and values of the classical world. Divorce (1920) is Williams' third book of poetry following Poems of Conformity which is also available on Librivox. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters (53)
1Divorce
2In Time of War
3Ballade of a Country Day
4Ballade of Travellers
5Ghosts
6To Michal: After a Vigil
7House-Hunting
8Celestial Cities
9Ballad of Material Things
10Dialogue between the Republic and the Apostacy
11At the Gates
12On the German Emperor
13To Michal: On Forgiveness
14Politics
15First Love
16Lost in Love
17Incidents
18Return
19Her Dark Eyes Sparkle
20Four Sonnets
21After Marriage
22Loving and Loved
23To Michal: On Brushing her Hair
24Experiments
25On Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
26Briseis
27Helen in the Chamber of Deiphobus
28To Michal Meditating a new Costume
29For a Cathedral Door
30To Michal: On Disputing Outside Church
31Invitation to Early Communion
32At the 'Ye that do truly'
33On Leaving Church
34Commentaries
35Love's Adolescence
36Outland Travel
37Advent
38Christmas
39The Fourth Dimension
40Birds
41Sleep
42In an Ecclesiastical Procession
43Office Hymn for St Thomas Didymus
44Chant Royal of Feet
45In a Motor-Bus
46In a London Office
47Three Friends
48'Thy Will Be Done'
49Prayer
50Go Not, My Lord
51Envoy
52Voice of the Republic
53Voice of the Apostacy
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