- Blaxland-de Lange, Simon. Owen Barfield, A Biography: Romanticism Come of Age. England: Temple Lodge, 2006.
- Carpenter, Humphrey. The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends. London: HarperCollins, 1997.
- Mead, Marjorie L. "Owen Barfield: A Biographical Note." The Silver Trumpet by Owen Barfield
- Reilly, Robert J. Romantic Religion: A Study of Barfield, Lewis, Williams and Tolkien. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1971.
- Zaleski, Philip & Carol. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Owen Barfield Resources
Call for Barfield Materials
The Wade Center is working with Owen Barfield’s grandson in gathering remaining letters, manuscripts, and archival materials by, about, or related to Owen Barfield. This effort is to support the future preservation and access of these materials at the Wade Center for the furtherance of Barfield scholarship and enjoyment of his works. If you have information about materials matching this description, please contact the Wade Center at wade@wheaton.edu.
Reading Barfield: Where to Begin
Video Series
View a series of five videos explaining key concepts in Owen Barfield’s book Saving the Appearances.
[Note that for many of the Wade authors there are numerous smaller collections which hold primary materials in addition to those listed above. For more information, contact the Wade Center archival staff.]
- Owen Barfield Literary Estate
- Owen Barfield in Short Films: Short explanatory videos about Barfield by Mark Vernon
- Saving the Appearances Video Series
- David Bohm and Owen Barfield: a conversation
- Conferences & Lectures
- "Evolving Consciousness" conference session recordings: Held in London, November 30, 2019
- "Barfield, Coleridge, and the Imagination" hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism on May 1, 2020
YouTube video of the sessions - "Tolkien, Barfield, and Neoplatonism: How Metaphysics Moulded Middle Earth" hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism on June 8, 2020
- "Owen Barfield: Philosopher of the Evolution of Consciousness" by Owen A. Barfield. Fintry Trust, September 12, 2020.