The Co-Inherence

Perhaps one should warn readers unacquainted with Charles Williams that his The Image of the City and Other Essays (selected by Anne Ridler, Oxford, $6.00) is not about Town Planning. Williams uses the word City in its original sense, which the French Cite retains, of the human community in all its aspects, our family, political and economic life.

It is a collection, made by a friend and one-time pupil, of what are called, often unjustly, “fugitive” pieces, essays, reviews, editorial introductions which Williams would probably not have written if somebody hadn’t asked him to or he had been blessed with a private income. But, as every writer knows, being given a subject to write on can often stimulate thought and imagination so that what at first seemed a purely hack job can turn out to be much more interesting than the writer anticipated.

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Perhaps one should warn readers unacquainted with Charles Williams that his The Image of the City and Other Essays (selected by Anne Ridler, Oxford, $6.00) is not about Town Planning. Williams uses the word City in its original sense, which the French Cite retains, of the human community in all its aspects, our family, political and economic life.

It is a collection, made by a friend and one-time pupil, of what are called, often unjustly, “fugitive” pieces, essays, reviews, editorial introductions which Williams would probably not have written if somebody hadn’t asked him to or he had been blessed with a private income. But, as every writer knows, being given a subject to write on can often stimulate thought and imagination so that what at first seemed a purely hack job can turn out to be much more interesting than the writer anticipated.