Charles Williams — a remark

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“If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.”

Craft and reverence belong together when the subject is sacred · Essay, The Productions of Time, Time and Tide, 1941

About Charles Williams

Charles Williams

20 September 1886–15 May 1945

On a crisp September morning in 1886, in the shabby-genteel precincts of Holloway, North London, Charles Walter Stansby Williams entered a world that would never quite know what to make of him. The only son of Richard Walter Stansby Williams and Mary Wall, young Charles was born into circumstances that trembled on the…

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