Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy

Jeffrey Hipolito is an independent scholar living in Seattle, USA. He has published articles and essays in The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, European Romantic Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Renascence, Journal of Inklings Studies, and VII, and is the current chairperson of the Owen Barfield Society.

C. S. Lewis praised Owen Barfield as ‘the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers’. Situating Barfield knowledgeably in his multiple intellectual contexts, Jeffrey Hipolito’s pioneering study argues that this wide-ranging and unconventional thinker advocated a distinctive and still-valuable fusion of Romanticism and Modernism centred on the individual imagination.

• Preface AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction 1. On the Dolphin’s Back: Poetics 2. The Texture of Thought: The Evolution of Consciousness 3. The Antecedent Unity: Metaphysics 4. The Door to Eternity: Anthroposophy 5. A Coinherence of Selves: Ethics and Politics 6. Mysterious Potency: The Burgeon Trilogy AppendixNotesBibliography Index