Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Barfield Owen
Title : Saving the appearances A study in idolatry
Year : 1957

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Introduction. The essays of which this book is composed were written at irregular intervals during a period between twelve and eighteen years ago. With one exception (here called Coleridge's I and Thou), which was contributed as a book review to The New Criteron, they appeared in article form in a periodical published under the auspices of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain. They are here gathered together in the form of a book, to which I am asked to write an Introduction. On :re-reading them at this distance of time I see that the area of the subjectmatter over which they directly or allusively range must appear wide, its communications tortUous and its boundaries ill-defined. I seem to have chosen a continent, instead of a country, for a rather haphazard walking-tour. A map on the scale required is accordingly out of the question and the best service I can do for any patient reader who may desire to read this book as a connected whole is to show him my diary and lend him my Baedekers. ...