Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Call of Canterbury : The Festival Plays of T.S. Eliot and Charles Williams (1935-1936)
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'Whether it was coincidence, collaboration or calling, the commissioning of a new play as the centrepiece of the annual Canterbury Festival resulted in the production of some of the early twentieth century’s most significant modern religious dramas, the greatest of which being the two verse plays written for the successive years of 1935 and 1936. While T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Charles Williams’s Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936) have had contrasting commercial and critical success in the years since, their production and reception at the time constituted an apotheosis in the religious drama revival of the early twentieth century. Furthermore, in what has been little recognized to date, the events surrounding the writing and production of these two successive plays represented a key moment in the development of an important personal and professional relationship between these two writers. Canterbury not only brought the two men closer together personally, but its shared experience became the foundation for their future professional relationship, a “still point” around which their subsequent writing would turn. (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr Catherine Runcie (editor), Revesby : Edwin H. Lowe Publishing , 2016 10728339 2016 anthology poetry essay

    'For over forty years, Barry Spurr has created a significant body of work in English literary scholarship, spanning a wide range of fields from Early Modern literature to contemporary Australian poetry. Barry Spurr is acknowledged as a leading scholar in the fields of religious literature and liturgical language, most notably in the works of Renaissance poet John Donne, the Modernist poet T.S. Eliot, and the language and literature of the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He was appointed by the University of Sydney as Australia's first Professor of Poetry and Poetics, and holds a notable reputation as a teacher and mentor to students, and as a friend to peers and colleagues. He has also been notable as a public intellectual, with a particular interest in the role of literature in the modern education system, and the role of the humanities in the modern university.

    'This book is a collection of scholarly papers, contemplative essays and poems, written or contributed in honour of Barry Spurr. The Festschrift's contributors include his former teachers and mentors, his students and colleagues, and includes scholars and public intellectuals in his fields of scholarship or public interest. This Festschrift is a very fine collection of poetry, public discourse and literary criticism, on topics ranging from the works of William Shakespeare, to John Milton, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Wilfred Owen, in addition to scholarship on liturgical language and religious and literary philosophy.' (Publication summary)

    Revesby : Edwin H. Lowe Publishing , 2016
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