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More from Owen Barfield
Here’s another excerpt from Owen Barfield‘s Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning. I’m quoting it in partial answer to a comment posted by Joel Jacobson in reply to my just previous post, asking what I meant by “technological rationalism,” which I had claimed was one of two powerful fundamentalisms at work in America today, the other being “religious unreason”.Read More
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By the Light of Owen Barfield
In response to an earlier post on this blog, Vassilis Zambaras posted a comment in which he quoted from Owen Barfield‘s classic Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning. I had read the book early in my twenties and frankly was too callow, both as a reader and a writer, to grasp the fullness of Barfield’s insights. Vassilis’s comment sent me back to the book, though, and I’ve been discovering just how much I missed the first time through.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
