"The Rose on the Ash-Heap"

Title"The Rose on the Ash-Heap"
Year for Search1993
AuthorsBarfield, [Arthur] Owen(1898-1997)
Secondary AuthorsHunter, Jeanne, and Kranidas, Thomas
Tertiary AuthorsBarfield, Owen
Secondary TitleA Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield
Pagination99-127
Date Published1993
PublisherState University of New York Press
Place PublishedAlbany
KeywordsEnglish author
Annotation

Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.

Info Notes

First publication of a section of an unpublished novel entitled English People.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Barfield (1898-1997) was a member of the Oxford Inklings with his friends C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was deeply influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and Anthroposophy.

Full Text

1993 Barfield, [Arthur] Owen (1898-1997). “The Rose on the Ash-Heap.” A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield. Ed. Jeanne Clayton Hunter and Thomas Kranidas with an afterword by Owen Barfield (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 99-127. First publication of a section of an unpublished novel entitled English People. PSt

Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses. Barfield was a member of the Oxford Inklings with his friends C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was deeply influence by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and Anthroposophy.