Tag Archives: editing

A Book of Victorian Narrative Verse

Posted on 11 January 2023 by Sørina Higgins

Here’s another of CW’s editorial efforts for Oxford University Press. It was published in 1927 by Clarendon Press–which was the name for the Oxford branch, while the London branch was (confusingly) called Oxford University Press. Further confusion is introduced, at … Continue reading →

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Poems of Home and Overseas

Posted on 16 March 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Here again is another work that Williams edited in his job at Oxford University Press. You might be able to access a scan of it at HathiTrust if you have an academic login. As you can see from the title … Continue reading →

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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

Posted on 9 March 2022 by Sørina Higgins

Happy Wednesday! Here’s your dose of CW for this week. Instead of a work that he wrote, today I’m talking about a book that he edited. His connection with its compilers contributed one of the more important aspects of his … Continue reading →

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Almost a Great Poet: CW Edits Gerard Manley’s Hopkins

Posted on 9 September 2015 by Sørina Higgins

In 1930, Robert Bridges asked Charles Williams to edit and introduce a second edition of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He did, and it was published by Oxford University Press. Williams wrote of Hopkins’s work: “It is arguable that … Continue reading →

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