Who was Owen Barfield? What did he share with C.S. Lewis? Why did they both so love Dante? @iammarkvernon
Who was Owen Barfield? What did he share with C.S. Lewis? Why did they both so love Dante?  @iammarkvernon
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
It was a joy to talk about Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and Dante with Evan Amato of The Culturist.

We talked about the Lewis and Barfield's "second friendship", the soul of words, what Barfield and Lewis found in Dante's Divine Comedy, and much more besides.

Oh, and William Blake gets more than a passing mention, too.

For more on The Culturist see - substack.com/@culturist
For more on Mark's books and work see - markvernon.com
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Who was Owen Barfield? What did he share with C.S. Lewis? Why did they both so love Dante?

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