Glen Cavaliero

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Glen Cavaliero was born in 1927 and educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1953. In 1965 he moved to Cambridge where he read for a degree in English, obtaining his doctorate in 1972. He now lives and teaches there as a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College. A former adviser to the Cambridge Poetry Festival, Glen Cavaliero is the author of six collections of poems. He has also published critical studies of John Cowper Powys (1973), E. M. Forster (1979) and Charles Williams (1983) in addition to The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939 (1977), The Supernatural and English Fiction (1995), and The Alchemy of Laughter (2000). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has contributed to numerous journals and periodicals, including The Cambridge Review, Encounter, The New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and The Times Literary Supplement. Three poems by Glen Cavaliero Online article by Glen Cavaliero on Charles Williams at the Lost Club website Bibliography Criticism Poetry Contributions Criticism John Cowper Powys, Novelist, Oxford University Press 1973    The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939, Macmillan, 1977 A Reading of E. M. Forster, Macmillan, 1979   Charles Williams: Poet of Theology, Macmillan, 1983   The Supernatural and English Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1995 The Alchemy of Laughter, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000   return to top Poetry The Ancient People, Carcanet, 1973   Paradise Stairway, Carcanet, 1977 Elegy for St Anne's, Warren House Press, 1982 Steeple on a Hill, Tartarus Press, 1997 Ancestral Haunt, Poetry Salzburg, 2002 The Christmas Robins and Other Poems, privately printed 2005   The Justice of the Night, Tartarus Press, 2007   Towards the Waiting Sun, Poetry Salzburg, 2011   return to top   Contributions 1959 'The Way of Affirmation: A Study of the Writings of Charles Williams', Church Quarterly Review No 32 CLVII, 1959 1959 'Christology and Creation', Theology Vol LXII No, 466, 1959 1960 'His Son John', Prism Vo1 IV No. 3, 1960 1964 'Chastity', Traditional Virtues Reassessed, ed. A.R. Vidler, SPCK, 1964 1965 'Creation and the Christian Hope', Theology Vol LXVLIII, No 546, 1965 1965 'Prayer and Radical Theology', Prism No, 94, 1965 1972 'John Cowper Powys: Landscape and Personality in the Early Novels', Essays on John Cowper Powys, edited by Belinda Humfrey, University of Wales Press (Cardiff), 1972 1973 'Ford Madox Ford: A Centenary Tribute', Cambridge Review Vol 95 No. 2217, 1973 1977 'Phoenix and Serpent: D.H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys', The Powys Review, Nos. 2 & 3, 1977 1979 'Sylvia Townsend Warner: An Appreciation', The Powys Review No. 5, 1979 1980 'The Powys Family and Dorset', The Powys Review No. 7, 1980 'Recollections of John Cowper Powys, Recollections of the Powys Brothers, edited by Belinda Humfrey, Peter Owen (London), 1980 Introduction to Witchcraft by Charles Williams, The Aquarian Press (Wellingborough), 1980 1981 'Sylvia Townsend Warner: The Short Stories', PN Review No. 23, 1981 1982 'The Wicked Mrs Berryman' (story), Encounter, Vol LVIII, 1982 1983 Introduction to The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans by Edward Thomas, The Boydell Press (Woodbridge), 1983 1984 Introduction to The Dew on the Grass, by Eilune Lewis, The Boydell Press (Woodbridge), 1984 Introduction to The Collected Poems of Gamel Woolsey, Warren House Press (North Walsham), 1984 'The Novels of Phyllis Paul', The Powys Review, No. 14, 1984 1985 Afterword to Three Fantasies by John Cowper Powys, Carcanet (Manchester), 1985 'John Cowper Powys: Space Traveller', The Powys Review, No.16, 1985 1986 Introduction to Beatrix Potter's Journal, Abridged by Glen Cavaliero, Frederick Warne (London), 1986 'Autobiography and Fiction', Modern Selves, edited by Philip Dodd, Frank Cass, 1986 'Charles Williams and the Arthuriad', Moderne Artus-Rezeption 1760-1985, edited by Kurt Gamerschlag, Bonn, 1986 'The Comic Spirit in the Novels Of John Cowper Powys', The Powys Review No. 18, 1986 1987 Introduction to Out of Season by Ian David Baker, Olive Press, 1987 1989 Introduction to Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims, Kent State University Press (Ohio), 1989 1993 'Samuel Butler: A Master of Obliquity', Review 15, 1993 1994 'John Cowper Powys and the Aether', The Powys Journal Vol IV, 1994 1995 'Charles Williams and Twentieth Century Verse Drama', Charles Williams: A Celebration, edited by Brian Horne, Gracewing, 1995 1996 Introduction to A Companionable Talent, by Eilune Lewis, Finchcocks Press, 1996 'The Woman Who Looked Like Mrs Simpson' (story), Avatar, Cambridge, 1996 'A Metaphysical Epiphany: Charles Williams and the Art of the Ghost Story', The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, edited by Charles A. Huttar and Peter J. Schakel, 1996 1997 'Two Versions of Merlin', The Charles Williams Society Newsletter, No 84 1999 'The Mysterious Charity of Geoffrey Hill', PN Review 128, 1999 'Maiden Castle Revisited', The Powys Journal Vol IX, 1999 2000 'Charles Williams: The Nature of the Poet', The Charles Williams Society Newsletter No. 96, 2000 Introduction to The Crisis and the Quest by Stephen Dunning, Paternoster Press, 2000 2001 'The Novels of Charles Williams', The Lost Club Journal No. 2, 2001 'Death of an Author' (story), Weirdly Supernatural No 1, 2001 'An Interpretation of T.F. Powys', The Powys Journal, Vo1 XI, 2001 2003 Introduction to Three Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Tartarus Press, 2003 2004 'A World of Shadows: The Novels of Phyllis Paul', Weirdly Supernatural No. 2, 2004 Introduction to Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker, Tartarus Press, 2004 'Daylight Ghosts: The Novels and Stories of Oliver Onions', Wormwood 2, Tartarus Press, 2004 2005 Introduction to The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler by Reggie Oliver, The Haunted River, 2005 Afterword to 'The Fully Conducted Tour' by Robert Aickman, Wormwood 5, Tartarus Press, 2005 2006 Introduction to The Sense of the Past by Henry James, Tartarus Press, 2006 2007 Introduction to The Blackthorn Winter by Philippa Powys, The Sundial Press, 2007 'Mysteries of the Thirteenth Hour: The Enigmatic World of Phyllis Paul' Wormwood 9, Tartarus Press, 2007 'A Foreword to The Image of the City', The Charles Williams Quarterly, No 124, Autumn 2007 2008 Foreword to The Bible as Literature by T.R.Henn, The Lutterworth Press, 2008 Introduction to Kindness in a Corner by T.F.Powys, The Sundial Press, 2008 2009 'The Discernment of Glory: the Theology of Arthur Machen', The Christian Parapsychologist, September 2009 2010 'A Jest in Heaven: the Comedic Element in the Theology A Charles Williams', The Charles Williams Society Newsletter No 155, 2010 Introduction to The Old Knowledge by Rosalie Parker, The Swan River Press, 2010. return to top   Page updated 18th August 2010