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Sidelights and Long Shadows

Sidelights and Long Shadows Book Symposium on The Tower: Major Poems and Plays by Owen Barfield Jeffrey Hipolito, Elizabeth Hadaway, and Fred Dennehy One has to wonder how the literary career of Owen Barfield, and the shape the modernist movement took in England, would have differed if he had been able to find publishers for his long poem The Tower in 1927 and his novel English People in 1930. There is perhaps something even symbolic in the fact that T.S. Eliot himself rejected The Tower for the Criterion in November 1927, on the sensible grounds that it was far too long for the journal and that he had published Yeats’s poem of the same title in July of that year. Eliot suggested that Barfield publish the poem as a book and change the title, as a collection of Yeats’s poems was soon to appear under the same title, and pointed him towards the Hogarth Press operated by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. There is an irony in Eliot’s no doubt well-intended suggestion: the Bloomsbury set was the object of sustained critique from Barfield in articles of the 1920s, and he satirized Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in his short story ‘Mrs. Cadogan’. Having met with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Sidelights and Long Shadows

Hipolito, Jeffrey
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (1): 4 – Apr 1, 2021
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Book Symposium on The Tower: Major Poems and Plays by Owen Barfield Jeffrey Hipolito, Elizabeth Hadaway, and Fred Dennehy One has to wonder how the literary career of Owen Barfield, and the shape the modernist movement took in England, would have differed if he had been able to find publishers for his long poem The Tower in 1927 and his novel English People in 1930. There is perhaps something even symbolic in the fact that T.S. Eliot himself rejected The Tower for the Criterion in November 1927, on the sensible grounds that it was far too long for the journal and that he had published Yeats’s poem of the same title in July of that year. Eliot suggested that Barfield publish the poem as a book and change the title, as a collection of Yeats’s poems was soon to appear under the same title, and pointed him towards the Hogarth Press operated by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. There is an irony in Eliot’s no doubt well-intended suggestion: the Bloomsbury set was the object of sustained critique from Barfield in articles of the 1920s, and he satirized Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in his short story ‘Mrs. Cadogan’. Having met with

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Published: Apr 1, 2021

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