The following is a list of books written or translated by Owen Barfield, in chronological order. This list is not comprehensive.

A more extensive bibliography is available here.

 

In print

Book Title 

Date first published

Brief description

History in English Words           

1926

Reference text

Poetic Diction                           

1928

Key text

Saving the Appearances

1957

Core text

Worlds Apart

1963

Fictional dialogue

Unancestral Voice      

1965

Philosophical novel

Romanticism Comes of Age       

1966

Essays

Speaker’s Meaning

1967

Use of language –

3 lectures

What Coleridge Thought

1972

Biography of the mind

Rediscovery of Meaning             

1977

Essays

History, Guilt and Habit             

1979

Philosophical overview – 

3 lectures

Owen Barfield on CS Lewis        

1989

Commentary

A Barfield Reader: Selections of Writings

1999

Compilation

Eager Spring

2008

(written 1988)

Novella

Contemporary tale with the myth-allegory

‘Virginia’s Conte’

Night Operation

2008

(written 1975)

Novella

Science fiction set in the 22nd century and modern satire.

 

In Print – Edited Translations

Book Title

Date first published

Brief description

Economics: The World as one Economy

1936

Rudolf Steiner’s World Economy: The Formation of a Science of World-Economics

Anthroposophy and the Inner Life

1961

Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy: An Introduction

Guidance in Esoteric Training     

1972

Rudolf Steiner

Calendar of the Soul: The Year Participated

1985

Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul

Translated and paraphrased for an English ear.

 

Available in 2009 

To be published by the Barfield Press UK

Title

Date first published

Brief description

The Silver Trumpet        

1925

Children’s fairy tale

The Rose in the Ash-Heap

1929 (unpublished)

Novella

Myth-allegory  from the novel, ‘English People’.

This Ever Diverse Pair    

1950

Auto-biographical novel

The Case for Anthroposophy

1970

Extracts from Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of the Soul. Selected, translated, arranged, with introduction.

Orpheus: A Poetic Drama          

1983 (written 1937)

Play

 

 

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