ABSTRACT
1930, pp. x–xvi
This new edition contained a further sixteen (relatively unimportant) poems. Charles Williams (1886–1945) worked for the Oxford University Press, but also did much writing and lecturing. He was a devout Anglican, whose books and personality seem to have had a profound effect on a number of people, including W.H. Auden. (His obituary in the Dictionary of National Biography was written by Gerard W.S. Hopkins, a nephew of the poet.) Williams’s more sympathetic tone, compared with Bridges’s Preface which continued to be printed, reflects the change in attitude of the poetry-reading public since 1918.
