'He [Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of
Hamlets...' - C. S. Lewis, from Surprised by Joy --- Cecil Harwood
(1898-1975) - lecturer, Waldorf teacher, writer, editor and
anthroposophist - pioneered and developed the first Rudolf Steiner
(Waldorf) school in the United Kingdom (the New School in London,
now Michael Hall School in Sussex). He also led the
Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain for some 37 years. In
1922, at the age of 24, Harwood attended a festival of English folk
song and dance in Cornwall, alongside his life-long friend Owen
Barfield. It was here - and not in the academic citadel of Oxford
University, where they were both part of the literary circle known
as the Inklings - that Harwood and Barfield were to encounter the
work of Rudolf Steiner through meeting Daphne Olivier. Sun King's
Counsellor provides an intricate picture of the human connections,
cultural movements and spiritual background that contributed to
what came together in Cornwall in 1922, leading to Harwood's life's
work. Featuring a colour plate section and full index, it documents
Harwood's early years and antecedents, marriages to Daphne Olivier
and Margaret Lundgren, friendships with Barfield and C.S. Lewis,
his life-changing meeting with anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner,
teaching and educational work, and Harwood's critical role in
healing divisions within the Anthroposophical Society. Based on
extensive research of primary sources, Blaxland-de Lange's
biography reveals the multi-faceted, flexible and sacrificial
nature of this unique personality. Alfred Cecil Harwood - he
preferred 'Cecil' instead of Alfred, with its meaning of 'wise
counsellor' - began his career with the hope of becoming a writer,
and had neither the intention nor ambition to become a teacher or
the head of a national organization. Yet he became both an
exemplary teacher and leader, as well as a celebrated author,
editor, translator and lecturer.
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