The Charles Williams Society

Monthly Archives: April 2009

Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, October 17th

This was a joint one with the Dorothy Sayers Society. The speakers will be Brian Horne on Williams’s Dante; Suzanne Bray on the Canterbury Festival plays of Williams and Sayers; Kenneth Pickering on “The Found Space”, including accounts of the opportunities and constraints afforded by the location of the Festival PLays; and Glen Cavaliero on […]

Williams’s mature poetry, apart from his plays, is set against the background of the Arthurian legends, adapted for his own purposes. (For example, Arthur’s kingdom of Logres, and indeed most of Europe, are seen as part of the Byzantine Empire.) The main figure in most of the poems is Taliessin, a semi-legendary Welsh bard, here […]